The problem of the novelist who wishes to write about a man's encounter with God is how he shall make the experience--which is bot...h natural and supernatural--understandable, and credible, to his reader. In any age this would be a problem, but in our own, it is a well- nigh insurmountable one. Today's audience is one in which religious feeling has become, if not atrophied, at least vaporous and sentimental.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In thought and sympathy we were one, and in the division of labor we exactly complemented each other. In writing we did better wor...k than either could do alone. While she is slow and analytical in composition, I am rapid and synthetic. I am the better writer, she the better critic. She supplied the facts and statistics, I the philosophy and rhetoric, and, together, we have made arguments that have stood unshaken through the storms of long years.... So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--united, such strength of self-assertion that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
So closely interwoven have been our lives, our purposes, and experiences that, separated, we have a feeling of incompleteness--uni...ted, such strength of self-association that no ordinary obstacles, difficulties, or dangers ever appear to us insurmountable.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »