By his very profession, a serious fiction writer is a vendor of the sensuous particulars of life, a perceiver and handler of things. His most valuable tools are his sense and his memory; what happens in his mind is primarily pictures.

Wallace Stegner
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He is deeply interested in the physical details of life. He is a seller of sensuous particulars, a perceiver and handler of things. He speaks with pictures and his language is vivid.

Source: On Teaching And Writing Fiction

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