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Collecting the opinions of one man on a given subject, as expressed throughout a lifetime, proved to be an interesting exercise.
All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you;
people believe them the people reading them nearly always think the stories really happened to you.
do this successfully enough you make the person who is reading them believe that the things happened to him too.
If you can do this you are beginning to get what you are trying for which is to make the story so real beyond any reality that it will become a part of the reader’s experience and a part of his memory.
which without his knowing it, enter into his memory and experience so that they are a part of his ...
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All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence that you know.”
It was easy then because there was always one true sentence that I knew or had seen or had heard someone say.
Actually if a writer needs a dictionary he should not write. He should have read the dictionary at least three times from beginning to end and then have loaned it to someone who needs it.
If you are not you have not transferred the emotion completely to the reader. Anyway that is the way it works with me.
The best way is always to stop when you are going good and when you know what will happen next. If you do that every day when you are writing a novel you will never be stuck. That is the most valuable thing I can tell you so try to remember it.
