“You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.”

— Katherine Anne Porter

Writers at Work interview (1963)
Context: A cultivated style would be like a mask. Everybody knows it's a mask, and sooner or later you must show yourself — or at least, you show yourself as someone who could not afford to show himself, and so created something to hide behind... You do not create a style. You work, and develop yourself; your style is an emanation from your own being.

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American journalist, essayist, short story writer, novelist… 1890–1980

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