Such analysis is interesting to make, and also interesting to read, but it is not directly profitable to the writer.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
work intelligently and to take pains.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
with matters of conception
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
Usually the propositions necessary to be laid down require no demonstration; they are self-evident.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
Unquestionably literary dissection is useful in that it gives the beginning writer familiarity with the terminology and processes of the art, but the main object of a book on technique is to place the results of analysis, directly stated, in logical sequence.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
The art of telling a story is largely the art of justly manipulating its elements.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
The subject is too inclusive for adequate treatment here.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
Moreover, it is debatable whether the art of verbal expression can be studied objectively with any great profit. But the art of putting a story together can be studied objectively with profit, and its principles are subject to direct statement.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
The artist must now step down, don his working clothes, and become the artisan.
Menna Abu Zahrahas quoted2 years ago
must decide, almost in a breath, the scale, the style, the spirit, and the particularity of execution of his whole design."