Sunday, December 5, 2010

Commonplace Book

'Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection. Once characters have been born they assume a complete life about which everything exists, waiting to be recorded. The whole of art lies in the omissions.'

from a letter to 'Rosalind', October 6th 1926 in Letters to a Friend by Winifred Holtby

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