Writing without voice is wooden or dead because it lacks sound, rhythm, energy, and individuality.
...Writing with voice is writing into which someone has breathed. It has fluency, rhythm, and liveliness that exist naturally in the speech of most people when they are enjoying a conversation. --Peter Elbow, Writing with Power
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June 01, 2004
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