Yukio Mishima on his writing style:
"My ideal style would have had the grave beauty of polished wood in the entrance hall of a samurai mansion on a winter's day."
Dude was really messed up. This is how you end up committing seppuku and inspiring generations of malcontents into general dickishness.
Me, I want my writing to have the low-gravitas feel of a McMansion.
The point about postures and truths is an interesting insight though. I’m content to leave truths requiring a disciplined military bearing to others. The truths that concern me are the ones that can only be glimpsed when you’re slouching about mediocrely, whining and complaining