Writing is a way of organizing experience and life itself

Patricia Highsmith, known for her psychological thrillers like The Talented Mr. Ripleyand Strangers on a Train, shows us in Plotting and Writing Suspense Fictionhow there is no secret of success in writing, except individuality, or call it personality.

Nobody can’t deny she had a great deal of personality. For instance, in Daily Rituals: How Artists Work, Mason Currey wrote that Highsmith once attended a London cocktail party with a gigantic handbag that contained a head of lettuce and a hundr...