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Living to write
Published: June 3, 2003 If a writer weren't a human being of exceptionally acute perceptions and feelings, he wouldn't be a writer with a public, for no one would be interested in anything he wrote. Like other people, he needs a chance to live for the sake of living and taking part in the world's affairs, but he needs to live, too, to have material to write about. In all the shouting over technique, we sometimes forget that the first need of a writer is to have something important to write. Even those writers who seem to draw largely from their imaginations must have some basis of reality from which to draw. With most writers, experience and imagination are so blended that even they cannot always separate them and be sure which is which.
--From an article by Helen Peavy Washburn
The Writer, July 1943 |
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