Novelty. Security. Novelty wouldn't be a bad title. It had the grandness of abstraction, alerting the reader that large and thoughtful things were to be bodied forth. As yet he had no inkling of any incidents or characters that might occupy his theme; perhaps he never would. He could see though the book itself, he could feel its closed heft and see it opened, white pages comfortably large and shadowed gray by print; dense, numbered, full of meat. He sensed a narrative voice, speaking calmly and precisely, with immense assurance building, building; a voice too far off for him to hear, but speaking. ("Novelty") .John Crowley
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In this quote, Hemingway captures the feeling of being a writer. He keeps saying that the novel is a great weight for him but he has a strong sense of its beauty and he can already feel its shape. He knows how it will look and feel. The novel is a great weight of work to be done but he loves being able to see what it will look like before he has finished the first draft. Hemingway also tells that he knows that his writing voice is developing in him and that it is becoming very powerful.
Source: American Fantastic Tales: Terror And The Uncanny From The 1940S Until Now
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