"Style is everything. Style is eye, window, and view. And, of course, when it serves its purpose,..."

“Style is everything. Style is eye, window, and view. And, of course, when it serves its purpose, style is beside the point, is rightly subsumed by subjectivity and subject. Perhaps the handiest definition of literature is language where style and subject are inseparable. Sentences have a wisdom that inheres in their structure, syntax, and constituent parts, and not merely in what they purport to signify. I get agitated when I see critics lauding writers for their ‘invisible prose,’ as though style were only a window to be scrubbed out of sight.”

- Nam Le (via mttbll)