The literary wiseacres prognosticate in many languages, as they have throughout so many centuries, setting the stage for new haut ...monde in letters and making up the public's mind.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Some authors have what amounts to a metaphysical approach. They admit to inspiration. Sudden and unaccountable urgencies to write ...catapult them out of sleep and bed. For myself, I have never awakened to jot down an idea that was acceptable the following morning.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Few enjoy noisy overcrowded functions. But they are a gesture of goodwill on the part of host or hostess, and also on the part of ...guests who submit to them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contem...plate a fact he should never permit himself to face: that in all probability books have been written, are being written, will be written, better than anything he has done, is doing, or will do.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationship... between prolificness and quality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that "something else" ...that brings the book alive? What is the formula for that? The formula for that is not included in the curriculum.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »