“The Comforters” by Muriel Spark (post 4): Protagonist, who is writing a book on how novels are written, has this experience and conclusion

“Caroline…I told you of her experience with [hallucinating] the voices and the typewriter. Now she has developed the idea that these voices represent the thoughts of a disembodied novelist, if you follow, who is writing a book on his typewriter” (1, p. 170).

1. Muriel Spark. The Comforters [1957]. New York, New Directions, 2014.