Imaginative Faculty

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“An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)

“To write well, to have style ... is to paint. The master faculty of style is therefore the visual memory. If a writer does not see what he describes—countrysides and figures, movements and gestures—how could he have a style, that is originality?”
—Rémy De Gourmont (1858–1915)