Dreaming for Writers

11th April 2007 with 4 Comments

In a post on Spend Me To School, there is a list of people who have solved problems by dreaming.
Mary Shelly, apparently, dreamed up Frankenstein:
“When I placed my head upon my pillow, I did not sleep, nor could I be said to think… I saw — with shut eyes, but acute mental vision — I [...]

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If the artist does not fling himself, without reflecting, into his work, as Curtis flung himself into the yawning gulf, as the soldier flings himself into the enemy's trenches, and if, once in this crater, he does not work like a miner on whom the walls of his gallery have fallen in; if he contemplates difficulties instead of overcoming them one by one . . . he is simply looking on at the suicide of his own talent. Honore de Balzac

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