Stephen King quote connects Children's Cognitive Talents and Adult Novelists

The connection made in yesterday’s post between adult novelists and children’s cognitive talents was made by Stephen King in a quotation found in my post of September 17, 2013:

King said that, “…to be a writer…you have to imagine worlds that aren’t there. You’re hearing voices…Adults will say [when the writer was a child], ‘You have an invisible friend, that’s nice, you’ll outgrow that.’ Writers don’t outgrow it.”

To “imagine worlds that aren’t there,” that’s paracosm, mentioned in yesterday’s post. When King said “invisible friend,” that obviously relates to what I said yesterday. When he said, “you’re hearing voices,” that indicates how real the imaginary playmates (characters) are. And when he said that writers “don’t outgrow it,” he’s saying that novelists make use of cognitive talents from childhood.