The main concern of the study is with the outline of a theoretical system. Its minor variations from writer to writer are not a matter of concern to this analysis.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The more important the subject and the closer it cuts to the bone of our hopes and needs, the more we are likely to err in establishing a framework for analysis.
The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.
There's a practical problem about time and energy, and a more subtle problem of what it does to a writer's head, to continually analyze why they write, where it all comes from, where it's going to.
People have different views of how you deal with different issues in literature, and, frankly, long may it last that there is a range of views.
The task of a writer consists of being able to make something out of an idea.
In the writing of novels, there is the problem of how to shape a narrative.
The thematic, psychological, and cultural concerns of a writer are more relevant than whatever literary mode he or she chooses to deal with in any given novel.
A study, by its very nature, is an abstraction.
Often, writer's block will occur when I don't understand a character or his/her motivations. So I will make notes analysing characters.
Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.