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Bill Roorbach Quotes

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

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
Teacher, Real, Teaching
Bill Roorbach (2000). “Writing Life Stories”, p.97, Writer's Digest Books

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

Bill Roorbach
Fate, Heaven, Hell
Bill Roorbach (2013). “Life Among Giants: A Novel”, p.303, Algonquin Books

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
Lying, Successful, Facts

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