In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
Source: Quoted in: Hesketh Pearson, Bernard Shaw: His Life and Personality, ch. 16 (1942).
-- George Bernard Shaw, (Jul 26 1856-1950), Irish dramatist, critic; He is generally recognized as the best dramatist since Shakespeare; promoted social reform with drama of ideas.