It is a fact often observed, that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion, who cannot write well under other circumstances.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
However great a man's natural talent may be, the act of writing cannot be learned all at once.
I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent.
I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that relentless desire to write has to come from within.
Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.
Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.
Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.
It is also true that one can write nothing readable unless one constantly struggles to efface one's own personality. Good prose is like a windowpane.
The decision to write in prose instead of poetry is made more by the readers than by writers. Almost no one is interested in reading narrative in verse.
Many of today's verses are prose and bad prose.
There are people who think it's easier to write books in verse, and it's definitely not.
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