“Fundamentally a good author has his or her own sense of style. There is a natural, deep voice, and that voice is present from the first draft of a manuscript. When he or she elaborates on the initial manuscript, it continues to strengthen and simplify that natural, deep voice.”
Paris Review interview (2007)
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“The word of Mohammad is a voice direct from nature's own heart - all else is wind in comparison.”

“Nature utters her voice in lessons of heavenly wisdom and eternal truth.”
Ch. 8 http://www.egwtext.whiteestate.org/col/col8.html, p. 107
Christ's Object Lessons (1900)
4 Burr. Part IV., 2379.
Dissenting in Millar v Taylor (1769)