The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper-whether little or great, it belongs to Literature.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Literature includes any idea that haunts the mind until it is correctly expressed.
- In plain terms
- Anything that keeps bothering your mind until you write it belongs to literature.
- What can you take from it?
- Any idea that haunts the mind until written is literature.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- What idea won't leave you alone?
- When does obsession become art?
Another view
Not all persistent ideas make good literature.
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