Style is an increment in writing. When we speak of Fitzgerald's style, we don't mean his command of the relative pronoun, we mean the sound his words make on paper All writers, by the way they use the language, reveal something of their spirits, their habits, their capacities, and their biases.
This is inevitable as well as enjoyable. All writing is communication; creative writing is communication through revelation—it is the Self escaping into the open. No writer long remains incognito.
— William Strunk Jr., E. B. White, and Roger Angell, The Elements of Style