
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
Henri Peyre, at Yale, as quoted in Graham, Garrett, The Writer's Voice: Conversations with Contemporary Writers (1973), p. 272
“You never learn how to write a novel. You just learn how to write the novel that you're writing.”
“The central problem of novel-writing is causality.”
"Narrative Art and Magic" ["El arte narrativo y la magia"]
Discussion (1932)