Bill Roorbach Professions : Novelist Born : August 18, 1953 Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by 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 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. Bill Roorbach real teaching teacher It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell. Bill Roorbach hell fate heaven The successful memoirist [blogger] respects facts, uses them accurately, rigorously represses the human impulse to lie or embellish, but knows that truth is both different from facts and greater than facts, and not always their sum. Bill Roorbach successful lying facts Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors