The Following Ignore How Novelists Think: Cognitive Psychology, Literary Critics, Literary Theory, Literature Professors, Author Interviews, Literary Biography

In the last post, I quoted award-winning novelist, Ursula K. Le Guin, on how novelists think (they think like people with multiple personality). Past posts have quoted other famous writers as saying much the same thing. Yet, textbooks on cognitive psychology, textbooks on literary criticism and theory, literature professors, author interviews, and literary biographies have little or nothing to say about it.

Two points: First, most of these famous novelists, most or all of the time, are NOT crazy. They are high-functioning, productive citizens. Second, it is extremely unlikely that novelists are the only people with a normal version of multiple personality. As previously discussed, 90% of novelists probably have it, but 30% of the general public may, too.