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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 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

It's all written out, you know. Everything is fate. All written out in Heaven, or written out in Hell.

Bill Roorbach

Bill Roorbach

Bill Roorbach

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Born: August 18, 1953 (age 73)

Bio: Bill Roorbach is an American novelist, short story and nature writer, memoirist, journalist, blogger and critic.

Known for:

Life Among Giants: A Novel (2012)
The Remedy for Love (2014)
Writing life stories (1998)
Temple Stream (2005)
The Smallest Color (2001)

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