The author, in his work, must be like God in the Universe, present everywhere and visible nowhere.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him.
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.
Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself.
The unseen world is what emanates from God.
A writer is an eternal outsider, his nose pressed against whatever window on the other side of which he sees his material.
Eternal life and the invisible world are only to be sought in God. Only within Him do all spirits dwell. He is an abyss of individuality, the only infinite plenitude.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Every reader finds himself. The writer's work is merely a kind of optical instrument that makes it possible for the reader to discern what, without this book, he would perhaps never have seen in himself.
A Christian novelist tries to describe the world as it is.