
Ernest and his cat
Hemingway said, “Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.”
So true. Writers build. They build texts from words. They build theories from facts and ideas, and build stories from themes and characters. And, as if designing a grand cathedral, a good writer must have a solid foundation of knowledge, imagination, and substance to aptly support their structure made of language – or else it is doomed to crumble away, right before the reader’s eyes.