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“Just as a fighter has to feel that he possesses the right to do physical damage to another man, so a writer has to be ready to take chances with his readers’ lives.”
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
“Tolstoy teaches us that compassion is of value and enriches our life only when compassion is severe, which is to say that we can perceive everything that is good and bad about a character but are still able to feel that the sum of us as human beings is probably a little more good than awful. In any case, good or bad, it reminds us that life is like a gladiators’ arena for the soul and so we can feel strengthened by those who endure, and feel awe and pity for those who do not.”
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
“Having reshaped my words with an intensity of feeling I had not known before, I could not understand why others were not overcome with my sense of life, of sex, and of sadness.”
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
“Characters in novels sometimes radiate more energy, therefore, when we don’t enter their mind. It is one of the techniques a novelist acquires instinctively—don’t go into your protagonist’s thoughts until you have something to say about his or her inner life that is more interesting than the reader’s suppositions.”
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
“The compulsive talker must go through the herculean transformation of learning to quit or must become a great monologuist.”
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
― The Spooky Art: Thoughts on Writing
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