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Saturday, April 14, 2012
Mark Twain on Story-Telling ~
"If you attempt to create & build a wholly imaginary incident, adventure or situation, you will go astray, & the artificiality of the thing will be detectable. But if you found on a fact in your personal experience, it is an acorn, a root, & every created adornment that grows up out of it & spreads its foliage & blossoms to the sun will seem realities, not inventions. You will not be likely to grow astray; your compass of fact is there to keep you on the right course."
~ Mark Twain, written in a scribbler
Mark Twain An Illustrated Biography, Geoffrey Ward, Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns. Knopf, 2001.
"If you attempt to create & build a wholly imaginary incident, adventure or situation, you will go astray, & the artificiality of the thing will be detectable. But if you found on a fact in your personal experience, it is an acorn, a root, & every created adornment that grows up out of it & spreads its foliage & blossoms to the sun will seem realities, not inventions. You will not be likely to grow astray; your compass of fact is there to keep you on the right course."
~ Mark Twain, written in a scribbler
Mark Twain An Illustrated Biography, Geoffrey Ward, Dayton Duncan, Ken Burns. Knopf, 2001.
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