 Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master - something that, at times, strangely...  Littell's Living Age - Page 1431851Full view - About this book
 | David Morley - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2007 - 300 pages
...Composition and creative writing Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I...years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent to 'harrow the valleys, or be... | |
 | M.P. Singh - Quotations, English - 2005 - 324 pages
...Aldiss "One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude." — Carl Sandburg "The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always mastersomething that at time strangely wills and works for itself." — Charlotte Bronte "The thing... | |
 | Marianne Thormählen - Literary Criticism - 2007 - 10 pages
...over-zealously. Creative writers confronted with Charlotte's description of the power of which the owner 'is not always master — something that at times strangely wills and works for itself (327) are more apt to recognise what their colleague was talking about a century and a half ago.31... | |
 | Berit Haberlag - 2008 - 29 pages
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...demon life - a Ghoul - an Afreet. Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I...years lie in subjection; and then, haply without any warning of revolt, there comes a time when it will no longer consent to 'harrow the valleys, or be... | |
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