Does all this make sense to anybody?
I had a letter from a reader asking whether I considered writing an art or a craft. He had been reading a novel of mine, I'm not sure which one, The Dangerous Edge, I think. I try to answer all the letters, and I answered this one, though perhaps not at the length the question deserved. I have always considered literature the highest of the art forms because it takes one further outside himself than any other and keeps him there longer. Now not all writing is literature, obviously. Literature has to be specifically tried for, it seems to me. The power and emotion, the impact of a story, is supposed to be valid no matter when it is read or by whom. It is supposed to have multiple levels of meaning and effect. It is supposed to illuminate love, manhood, courage, fear--whatever the writer has put into it. It is what comes out from deep inside him, as opposed to something that he happened to jot down. But it is also a craft, and very much a craft. The writer has to have all the proper tools, and he has to hit the nail squarely on the head. Very often I read something and say to myself, this guy doesn't know how to do what he is trying to do. He may be a very sincere artist, but he doesn't have enough craft. I once got into this discussion with a famous French chef, Andre Daguin who had a two-star restaurant in Auch and whose job it was to delight at least four of the five sense of each of his guests each night. Into this he put immense care and imagination. But he is a plain spoken man and he was unwilling to call haute cuisine an art, a word he seemed uncomfortable with. A craft, he said. But on his level he perhaps met the definition of art I have tried for above. Over the years I often thought so.
Does all this make sense to anybody?
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