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I don't care for philosophers in books. They are always bores. A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

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Others complain that I don't make the fundamental idea plain enough. This is every writer's dilemma. Your form is your meaning, and your meaning dictates the form. But what you try to convey is reality—the fact plus the feeling, a total complex experience of a real world. If you make your scheme too explicit, the framework shows and the book dies. If you hide it too thoroughly, the book has no meaning and therefore no form. It is a mess.

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I write the big scenes first, that is, the scenes that carry the meaning of the book, the emotional experience.

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Born: December 7, 1888
Died: March 29, 1957 (aged 68)
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