Kindred spirits

Wandering by one of the blogs I visit on an infrequent basis -- A Dress A Day -- I found the following quote about George Eliot:

September, 1856, when she was thirty-seven years old, marked the beginning of her effort to become a writer of fiction. She had always desired to write a novel, but she believed herself "deficient in dramatic power both of construction and dialogue," although feeling that she would be at ease "in the descriptive parts of a novel."

I am familiar with this entire outlook on writing; it is, in fact, precisely my outlook. It gives me hope that George Eliot felt the same way once upon a time.



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