Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so
slightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners. Often
the attachment is scarcely perceptible.
Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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.
A good essay must have this permanent quality about
it; it must draw its curtain round us, but it must be a curtain that
shuts us in not out.
A masterpiece is something said once and for all,
stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at
the back.
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