A Meeting of the Minds ...
"Well, I believe that every novel has a living soul. It
is a fragment of your own soul, if you are the novelist, added to a fragment of
the world soul that stole as an essence into your imaginative creative mind and
then re-imaged through your rationale and clothed for travel to another mind.
Something very special and magical has happened there. In that joining of minds
between author and reader, in a satisfying novel, a larger quality leaps off
the pages, a quality larger than the author and larger than the reader, larger
than the two combined; it is a quantum leap, larger even than the sum of all
its parts.
"I don't know what it is. I have written something more than a hundred books, but I still do not know what it is."
~Don Pendleton, from The Metaphysics of the Novel: The Inner
Workings of a Novel and a Novelist
A book for aspiring writers and for those who desire to know
more about the creative process of writing.
~Linda
