The difference between the writer of serious fiction and the writer of escape entertainment is the clear difference between the artist and the craftsman. The one has the privilege and the faculty or original design; the other does not. The man who works from blueprints is a thoroughly respectable character, but he is of another order from the man who makes the blueprints in the first place.
Wallace Stegner, Teaching and Writing Fiction, 2002
Wallace Stegner, Teaching and Writing Fiction, 2002
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