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" Whether it is right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master — something that, at times, strangely... "
The Living Age - Page 557
1908
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Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë - 1889 - 476 pages
...right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down rules and...
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The Westminster Review, Volume 160

1903 - 758 pages
...God, bloweth where it listeth. That which Charlotte Bronte herBelf has told us is perfectly true. " The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself." Scarcely any scene in fiction surpasses in tragic power that in which Jane, straggling with herself,...
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Novels of the Sisters Brontë: Wuthering Heights, by Emily Brontë

Charlotte Brontë - 1905 - 538 pages
...Heathcliff I do not know ; I scarcely think it is. But this I know ; the writer who possesses the L creative gift owns something of which he is not always...He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to wills and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection, and then, haply without any warning...
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An Anthology of Modern English Prose (1741 to 1892)

Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1911 - 488 pages
...right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff I do not know ; I scarcely think it is. But this I know : the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master—something that, at times, strangely works and wills for itself. He may.lay down rules and...
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The Oxford Book of English Prose

Arthur Quiller-Couch - 1925 - 1262 pages
...right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know : I scarcely think it is. But this I know ; the writer who possesses the creative gift...times, strangely wills and works for itself. He may lay down\rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for years lie in subjection...
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The Philosophy of Fiction

Grant Martin Overton - 1928 - 394 pages
...wait thus often comes to me. And Charlotte, in her preface to Wuthering Heights, puts it honestly: The writer who possesses the creative gift owns something...that, at times, strangely wills and works for itself. . . . Your share in it has been to work passively under dictates you neither delivered nor could question....
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Personality

Ronald Grey Gordon - 1928 - 328 pages
...strain Charlotte Bronte in the preface to her sister Emily's Wuthering Heights, says, " But this I know ; the writer who possesses the creative gift,...something that, at times, strangely wills and works itself. . . . ". . . As for you — the nominal artist — your share in it has been to work passively...
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Emily Brontë

Lyn Pykett - 1989 - 164 pages
...theory of creativity in which the literary work comes unbidden to the possessor of the creative gift. [T]he writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always master . . . He may lay down rules and devise principles, and to rules and principles it will perhaps for...
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Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights

U. C. Knoepflmacher - 1989 - 164 pages
...right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know; the writer who possesses the creative gift owns something of which he is not always a master - something that strangely wills and works for itself." The sister whom Charlotte here masculinizes...
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Erotic Faith: Being in Love from Jane Austen to D. H. Lawrence

Robert M. Polhemus - 1995 - 395 pages
...right or advisable to create beings like Heathcliff, I do not know: I scarcely think it is. But this I know: the writer who possesses the creative gift owns...something that at times strangely wills and works for itself."23 What Emily wills to express through Heathcliff is the insatiable need for permanent love...
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