For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
He comes to this other world and he has to reinvent himself. Again, it felt natural, even though I'd been working really hard trying to come up with something.
We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create.
Imitation is a caricature. Any imitation. Find out for yourself.
A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Before someone can change his ideas, he has to open his heart.
It is better to fail in originality than to succeed in imitation.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new at all.
Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.
He can't even be at a casual read and not be creating the whole thing in his mind. I remember feeling very awed about how much he still seems to be so in love with it, and so dedicated to making everything really real and really spontaneous.