He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had come to accept that this would only be half as good as the original, half as acceptable as the flawless, unachievable novel that had acted as a guide, and which he imagined pulsating mockingly behind each book like some ghostly presence.


The Map of Time: A Novel (ed. Simon and Schuster, 2011) - ISBN: 9781439167465

Félix J. Palma Quotes

He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had ...

He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had ...

He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had ...

He had learned from experience that what he succeeded in putting down on paper was only ever a pale reflection of what he had imagined, and so he had ...