The Writers Conscience
Robertson Davies raises some interesting points in his essay The Conscience of the Writer. He explains that a 'real writer' is one for whom writing is a full-time activity. He then proceeds to categorize writers into a group of whom he admires and whom he doesn't. The group of writers he admires the most all have a characteristic which distinguishes them from those he doesn't admire; that is the pursuit of great writing through themes. Davies also claims that the greatest writing comes from a deep psycho-analysis of one's self and the act of putting ink to paper after a revelation of one's conscious is what creates many classics. When one delves into his or her own inner psyche, the result of this scrutiny often creates the most beautiful novels. These novels are classic not for the themes they expl
Writing is rarely about a story. I won't pretend that I could possibly categorize every possibly type of author or writer in a short paragraph, or rather even a lengthy essay. The great writers use every tool at their disposal, spending laborious amounts of time creating these magic potions. It paints a picture and show's emotions; it creates a scene and transforms a world. It doesn't have beautiful colours or delicate shades; it doesn't have sharp curves and perfect circles. While anyone can be a writer just as well as anyone can read, it takes special talent for one to be able to use words and play with them in the way a pyromaniac plays with fire or a mathematician with numbers. There are also those writers who seem to be a catalyst for their work, and speaking to them about their books often lead to dead-end conversations. Great writers should not be seen as puppet masters narrating with marionettes. To write is to ignite the imagination of the soul. Writers are more like mad chemists, brewing chemicals in strange containers, mixing substances and in the end shouting "It's Alive!!" with an evil cackle. It is not necessary to know a million grammatical rules or the definition of a hyperbole, rather to be able to use words and phrases elegantly, conjuring up words that may never have existed, thoughts that have never been debated and metaphors that have never before been thought of. A great book always reveals the author's conscious but not always evidently; one must dig past the surface of the book, to truly understand it, there is always something that one can take from a book.
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