Okay, I never heard of Vita Sackville-West before, but I was looking at quotes about writing and this one captured me. It made me think.
Is writing a romance novel really clapping the net over the butterfly of the moment?
I looked up Sackville-West. She was an English poet and novelist, mainly in the 1930s and 40s, and had a long affair with Virginia Woolf. And I thought, oh, well, poetry. That's a very personal form of writing, and certainly qualifies as capturing the butterfly of the moment. Probably the haiku I write also qualify.
But really, what about a novel? Does it have to be "literature" to capture that butterfly? Or is any writing, creativity of the mind, a scramble with the butterfly net?
I don't know. What do you think?
