The writer's voice is akin to style, but it isn't style alone. It is the writer's particular and unmistakable signature on everything he writes. It is his world and no other. This is one of the things that distinguishes one writer from another. Not talent. There's plenty of that around. But a writer who has some special way of looking at things and who gives artistic expression to his way of looking: that writer may be around for a time.
Raymond Carver in On Writing Short Stories, edited by Tom Bailey, 2000
Raymond Carver in On Writing Short Stories, edited by Tom Bailey, 2000
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