what does "the author's style" mean? is it different from tone and mood?

Answer 1

I would say that style refers more specifically than tone and mood to the actual choice of wording and sentence construction. Hemingway's style is sparse. He uses short words. He uses few words.
Dickens' style is more effusive, and his tendency in contrast to Hemingway's is to convey more information in a single sentence.
But I would add that certain styles work best with certain tones and moods.

Answer 2

The way a writer relates to the reader through the speak of characters or circumstances, anything really. But it is the means by which they reach you, the style in which they find comfortable, their familiar cadences and how their words fall like their own footsteps down a hallway.

A great reader knows these writers at vague distances, just as a great writer has them always come recognized as their own.

The better the writer, the less the effort it takes to hear these cadences. The greater the writer, the harder it is to hear at first but like echoes know their own voices, they return to you with the subtleties like the scent of fresh baked cookies...

You always know them once they hit your senses just right.

Kafka is unmistakable

Joyce is unmistakable

Hugo is unique but he can be mistaken for many others if not careful.

Gertrude Stein... I can't stand her... but I always known when I am reading her... she gives me the worst migraines and the reason why is in her very specific style.

Virginia Wolfe was always quite obvious to me

Plath, sexton, Rilke... All unmistakable stylistically

Answer 3

Not very diffrent. Danielle Steel's "style" or mood, is just basically her way of writeing...she is well known for her twisty but easy to follow books and always killing people off (she is NOT faraid to do that) and many other things. She is by far one of the best authors there is! To your question: No, not entirely diffrent.

Answer 4

Some writers have a whimsical style, others may be flippant, some are long-winded and pedantic. It's the way they write. My style is simple and fast-moving.

Answer 5

the style is what defines someone's particular writing: e.g. he's using mostly adjectives,adverbs, a binary rythm for his sentences, he prefers using description than dialogs, ...