To note an artist's limitations is but to define his talent. A reporter can write equally well about everything that is presented to his view, but a creative writer can do his best only with what lies within the range and character of his deepest sympathies.
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Focusing only on deep sympathies can limit growth through challenge.
There is a popular superstition that 'realism' asserts itself in the cataloguing of a great number of material objects, in explaining mechanical processes, the…
One might say that every fine story must leave in the mind of the sensitive reader an intangible residuum of pleasure; a cadence, a quality of voice that is ex…
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as the modern painter learns to d…
The question we writers are asked most often, the favorite question, is: Why do you write? I write because I have an innate need to write. I write because I ca…
A writer should get as much education as possible, but just going to school is not enough; if it were, all owners of doctorates would be inspired writers.
People talk about talent as though it were some neutral substance that can be applied to anything. But talent is narrow and only functions with a very few subj…