I Am Not Thinking, Of Course, About Creative Writing. I
am well aware that the poets and the novelists do not, as Aristotle observed, " create what they create by taking thought ; but owing rather to natural temperament and in a mood......
The Man Who Writes The Narrative Of His Own Experiences
should thus realise that time is measured, not by the amount of seconds it absorbs, but by the intensity of experience it contains ; and that unless he can communicate to his......
The Man Who Sets Out To " Write A Book
" about his own experi- ences may imagine that the problem of proportion, the actual plan, will be determined by the chronological sequence. This is an in- correct assumption.......
Marginal Comment
By HAROLD NICOLSON N Sloane Square the other day I met a friend who had just been I demobilised. I asked him what he meant to do now. "Well," he answered, " as a matter of fact,......
Had I Said All This To My Demobilised Friend In
Sloane Square should I have encouraged or discouraged him? There are other things I might have said. I might have warned 'him of the dark days when his book would grow stale to......
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