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Beauty And Truth May Be Attributes Of Good Writing, But If The Writer Deliberately Aims At Truth, He Is Likely To Find That What He Has Hit Is The Didactic.

In The World Of The Imagination, Anything Goes That's Imaginatively Possible, But Nothing Really Happens.

Nobody Is Capable Of Of Free Speech Unless He Knows How To Use Language, And Such Knowledge Is Not A Gift: It Has To Learned And Worked At.

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For The Serious Mediocre Writer Convention Makes Him Sound Like A Lot Of Other People; For The Popular Writer It Gives Him A Formula He Can Exploit; For The Serious Good Writer It Releases His Experiences Or Emotions From Himself And Incorporates Them Into Literature, Where They Belong.