Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact to add to our collection. He can give us the creative fact; the fertile fact; the fact that suggests and engenders.
I undertake the same project as Montaigne, but with an aim contrary to his own: for he wrote his Essays only for others, and I write my reveries only for myself.
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.
I have made this letter longer than usual, only because I have not had the time to make it shorter.
There’s no doubt that scientific training helps many authors to write better science fiction. And yet, several of the very best were English majors who could not parse a differential equation to save their lives.
I am not afraid that the book will be controversial, I’m afraid it will not be controversial.
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