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> [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-roorbach/when-a-new-writer-defends-his-style-the-teacher-smiles-or-cringes/)

Bill Roorbach

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## More by Bill Roorbach

> [ The successful memoirist \[blogger\] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-roorbach/the-successful-memoirist-blogger-respects-facts-uses-them-accurately/)

Bill Roorbach

> [When a new writer defends his "style," the teacher smiles (or cringes) because real style isn't an artifice. Real style - voice - arrives…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-roorbach/when-a-new-writer-defends-his-style-the-teacher-smiles-or-cringes/)

Bill Roorbach

> [“The authorities aren't always up to the job.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-roorbach/the-authorities-aren-t-always-up-to-the-job/)

Bill Roorbach

> [It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/bill-roorbach/it-s-all-written-out-you-know-everything-is-fate-all-written-out-in/)

Bill Roorbach

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