“Reason is a fine thing, but it is not the only thing available to a writer. It's just part of the arsenal of many things available to a storyteller.” – Mark Helprin
Born on this date in 1947, Helprin is a novelist, journalist, scholar and conservative commentator stating that he "belongs to no literary school, movement, tendency, or trend.”
The child of two artists – his father was a well-known film industry leader and his mother a stage actress – Helprin was born in Manhattan, studied at Harvard and Princeton, and simultaneously became a statesman and writer with his non-fiction conservative commentary often called "biting." On the “creative” side, he has won numerous awards, particularly for his novel Winter’s Tale.
About writing, he has said, “We create nothing
new—no one has ever imagined a new color—so what you are doing is
revitalizing. You are remembering, then
combining, altering. Artists who think they're creating new worlds are simply
creating tiny versions of this world."
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