Even if there is endless documentation, it would be impossible to know what a man thought inside his own mind... This is where the novelist's creative imagination has to take over.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The moment a man sets his thoughts down on paper, however secretly, he is in a sense writing for publication.
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
If a man writes a book, let him set down only what he knows. I have guesses enough of my own.
A lot of writing is thinking.
No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Literature is strewn with the wreckage of men who have minded beyond reason the opinions of others.
Much has been written about the life of the mind.
Isn't that what writing is about? The constant attempt to understand the world?
The materials of the novelist must be real; they must be gathered from the field of humanity by his actual observation.