"When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives on its own, as an extension of a writer's character. When style is done self-consciously and purposefully it becomes affectation, and as transparent as any affectation - an English accent on an old college chum from New Jersey, for example."

Source : Bill Roorbach (2000). “Writing Life Stories”, p.97, Writer's Digest Books

Bill Roorbach

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