The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
The really great novel tends to be the exact negative of its author's life.
The greedy search for money or success will almost always lead men into unhappiness. Why Because that kind of life makes them depend upon things outside themselves.
The need to express oneself in writing springs from a mal-adjustment to life, or from an inner conflict which the adolescent (or the grown man) cannot resolve in action. Those to whom action comes as easily as breathing rarely feel the need to break loose from the real, to rise above, and describe it... I do not mean that it is enough to be maladjusted to become a great writer, but writing is, for some, a method of resolving a conflict, provided they have the necessary talent.
There are deserts in every life, and the desert must be depicted if we are to give a fair and complete idea of the country.
A great biography should, like the close of a great drama, leave behind it a feeling of serenity. We collect into a small bunch the flowers, the few flowers, which brought sweetness into a life, and present it as an offering to an accomplished destiny. It is the dying refrain of a completed song, the final verse of a finished poem.
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