“Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel.” WritingLostNovelChildhoodIllusionExpectationsTitlesMaturityPassagesThrillClashGreat WritersMotifs Author:Andre Maurois
“Several factors besides skill are more significant in professional writers than in most amateurs. One is love of the surface level of language: the sound of it; the taste of it on the tongue; what it can be made to do in virtuosic passages that exist only for their own sake, like cadenzas in baroque concerti. Writers in love with their tools are not unlike surgeons obsessed with their scalpels, or Arctic sled racers who sleep among their dogs even when they don't have to.” WritingMadeLanguageSoundSleepLevelsDogTasteSkillsToolsSakeTongueSurfaceSignificantFactorsObsessedPassagesSurgeonsArcticBaroqueRacersScalpels Book:The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain Source: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
“The book [ A Passage to India ] shows signs of fatigue and disillusionment; but it has chapters of clear and triumphant beauty, and above all it makes us wonder, what will he write next?” WritingBookShowsNextWonderClearIndiaPassagesChaptersFatigueDisillusionmentTriumphant Author:E. M. Forster