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Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Speaker: FRANCIS BACONPosted: 24 May 2009 at 12:33 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!
Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study.
Asked for advice from someone in high school who wanted to be a writer, he said, “Do not follow advice that doesn’t make sense. I work from experience, what I know, my imagination. I see a wall with fictional people on one side and real people on the other. While I’m writing, the fictional people reach through the wall and borrow from the real people.”