Collins (Wilkie, writer, 1824-89) Autograph Letter signed to M.D. Macleod, 4pp., 8vo, 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square [London], 23rd March 1882, relating to his novel Poor Miss Finch and describing his writing methodology, "To me my characters are living beings, and my mind becomes (in some way quite impossible to me) their mind, in the process of erecting them. I make no apology for speaking of myself in this way to you. Such experience as gives of the inner mental mysteries may even be interested in the mental process which produces works of fiction. When I am walking up and down my study, completely absorbed in the joys and sorrows of a non-existent person, I am inclined (when the 'fit' is over) to ask myself if the line may not be a fine one which divides this sort of excitement from the approaches perhaps of certain forms of insanity? Or, to put it more correctly, from the metaphysical point of view - if the imaginative faculty which works in this way, be not counterbalanced and controlled by an equally developed faculty of judgement or reason, or whatever the opposite of imagination may be", torn in two across central folds, slightly creased. ⁂ Wilkie Collins' method of writing.
Collins (Wilkie, writer, 1824-89) Autograph Letter signed to M.D. Macleod, 4pp., 8vo, 90 Gloucester Place, Portman Square [London], 23rd March 1882, relating to his novel Poor Miss Finch and describing his writing methodology, "To me my characters are living beings, and my mind becomes (in some way quite impossible to me) their mind, in the process of erecting them. I make no apology for speaking of myself in this way to you. Such experience as gives of the inner mental mysteries may even be interested in the mental process which produces works of fiction. When I am walking up and down my study, completely absorbed in the joys and sorrows of a non-existent person, I am inclined (when the 'fit' is over) to ask myself if the line may not be a fine one which divides this sort of excitement from the approaches perhaps of certain forms of insanity? Or, to put it more correctly, from the metaphysical point of view - if the imaginative faculty which works in this way, be not counterbalanced and controlled by an equally developed faculty of judgement or reason, or whatever the opposite of imagination may be", torn in two across central folds, slightly creased. ⁂ Wilkie Collins' method of writing.
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