Let me preach again for one moment: I mean that what you have felt and thought will by itself invent a new style so that when people talk about style they are always a little astonished at the newness of it, because they think that is only style that they are talking about, when what they are talking about is the attempt to express a new idea with such force that it will have the originality of the thought.ADDED: For comparison: "Something that you feel will find its own form."
Thursday, January 10, 2013
"Nobody ever became a writer just by wanting to be one. If you have anything to say..."
"... anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you have got to feel it so desperately that you will find some way to say it that nobody has ever found before, so that the thing you have to say and the way of saying it blend as one matter — as indissolubly as if they were conceived together."
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F. Scott Fitzgerald,
Jack Kerouac,
writing
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