Saturday, February 19, 2022

Writer’s “Madness”: Many great fiction writers, not yet having accepted the idea of their Multiple Personality Trait, think they are mad


Many great fiction writers don’t boast, not only because, as Charles Dickens said, “I don’t invent it,” or as Mark Twain said, “Writers don’t create characters,” or as Stephen King said, his stories are “found objects,” but because they fear their creative process means, or at least looks like, they are mad: in the words of Henry James, “the madness of art.”

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