The Evening Redness in the West - scenes from the writing life ...

AMIS: I think that novels are about the author's voice, and this perhaps is why I haven't got much time for the novel that dutifully apes the voice of the bricklayer or even the etymologist or whatever it might be. What gives the voice its own ... Instead of having a stress every other beat, it has stress after stress after stress. One's a little worried about having one's logo on every sentence. What's that phrase about a painting consisting entirely of signatures? ...