Crushed to earth and rising again is an author's gymnastic. Once he fails to struggle to his feet and grab his pen, he will contemplate a fact he sho….

But suppose, asks the student of the professor, we follow all your structural rules for writing, what about that something else that brings the book ….

The grand canyon which yawns between the writer's concept of what he wants to capture in words and what comes through is a cruel abyss..

Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation..