Twenty-four year old librarian and creative writing scholar.
currently reading:
Abarat (reread) by Clive Barker
The Cult TV Book by Stacey Abbott
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
The personality of the artist, at first a cry or a cadence or a mood and then a fluid and lambent narrative, finally refines itself out of existence, impersonalizes itself, so to speak. The aesthetic image in the dramatic form is life purified in and represented form the human imagination. The mystery of aesthetic like that of material creation is accomplished. The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man byJames Joyce

(Source: how-novelistic)