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The Operations Of The Human Mind Are Also Controlled By Words Of Power, Formulas That Become A Focus Of Mental Activity.

One Doesn't Bother To Believe The Credible: The Credible Is Believed Already, By Definition. There's No Adventure Of The Mind.

To Bring Anything Really To Life In Literature We Can't Be Lifelike: We Have To Be Literature-like

A Writers Desire To Write Can Only Have Come From Previous Experience Of Literature, And He'll Start By Imitating Whatever He's Read, Which Usually Means What The People Around Him Are Writing.

Characters Tend To Be Either For Or Against The Quest. If They Assist It, They Are Idealized As Simply Gallant Or Pure; If They Obstruct It, They Are Characterized As Simply Villainous Or Cowardly. Hence Every Typical Character...tends To Have His Moral Opposite Confronting Him, Like Black And White Pieces In A Chess Game.