...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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....

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...