If a writer knows enough about what he is writing about, he may omit things that he knows. The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due to only one ninth of it being above water.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I simply don't understand authors that know everything before they write it; it seems so cold blooded. I think it's lovely when the story takes over and goes somewhere else.
It may be said that poems are in one way like icebergs: only about a third of their bulk appears above the surface of the page.
We always see the point of an iceberg. So I've always accepted the idea that people - they don't necessarily know everything I am.
Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.
In a certain way, novelists become unacknowledged historians, because we talk about small, tiny, little anonymous moments that won't necessarily make it into the history books.
The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true.
The bestseller list is the tip of the iceberg.
The novelist has a responsibility to adhere to the facts as closely as possible, and if they are inconvenient, that's where the art comes in. You must work with intractable facts and find the dramatic shape inside them.
These are just the tip of the iceberg, because I read and read and read. I read everything.
A writer never reads his work. For him, it is the unreadable, a secret, and he cannot remain face to face with it. A secret, because he is separated from it.