"Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory……" — Umberto Eco

Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a… - Umberto Eco
"Usually naive interviewers hover between two mutually contradictory convictions: one, that a text we call creative develops almost instantaneously in the mystic heat of inspirational raptus; or the other, that the writer has followed a recipe, a kind of secret set of rules that they would like to see revealed. There is no set of rules, or, rather, there are many, varied and flexible rules."

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