What I take from writers I like is their economy - the ability to use language to very effective ends. The ability to have somebody read something and see it, or for somebody to paint an entire landscape of visual imagery with just sheets of words - that's magical.
“If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.”
“I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.”