One of the odd pleasures of reading for me is noticing how hard it is not to mimic the style of novels I'm reading Say, after reading Anthony Burgess, I'll use

One of the odd pleasures of reading for me is noticing how hard it is not to mimic the style of novels I'm reading Say, after reading Anthony Burgess, I'll use more $5 words than after I've just read a Kurt Vonnegut novel. Also, how painful it is to write in what passes for academic or business formal style.