I've just read something over in the comments at Fuse #8 that gave me pause. Yes, I've heard that originality is dead. But this quote gives me comfort somehow. I'm not sure why, since it very well may exclude a writer like myself from this heralded group of "serious, good writers." But still, it does give us all something to shoot for:
From Northrop Frye's Educated Imagination:
"All writers are conventional.... For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong."
By the way the comment was from Noel DeVries at Never Jam Today.
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