[Rarebooks] FS: Fine Katherine Anne Porter SIGNED Letter on Creative Writing

[Charles Agvent]

PORTER, Katherine Anne. TYPED LETTER SIGNED (TLS) on Creative Writing. 
Southbury, CT, 13 January 1957. A fine two-page TYPED LETTER SIGNED 
(TLS) on two sheets of blue 8-1/2" x 11" paper to journalism teacher 
Frank M. Flack of Pierce Junior College in Los Angeles, @400 words with 
several minor ink corrections. In small part: "...what are 
'Communication Skills'? publicity writing? lecturing? acting? 
speech-writer for a politician? What you call creative writing and I 
call writing is perhaps on one level a 'communication skill,' only God 
knows why it should be described in such a foggy, roundabout term; it is 
actually one of the fine arts ... and it must continue to be described 
as such ... if we are not to allow our mother-tongue to flatten and 
stiffen into a horrible meaningless clacking noise.... there is no 
formula for turning out a creative writer. There is only the secret of 
the individual talent ... and the teacher helps to free this talent ... 
reading every kind of excellent literature ... such as Yeats' MEMOIRS … 
Henry James … Jean Cocteau's JOURNALS … Virginia Woolf's COMMON READER … 
they will learn how the artist's mind works…. They should be encouraged 
to read WUTHERING HEIGHTS, WAR AND PEACE, and not just know them as 
moving pictures….” Porter mentions a few of her own works and closes 
with more advice: “Teach the young their language from the great 
sources, give them the chance to read good literature, and ‘Creative 
Writing’ will take care of itself.” Creases from mailing. Very Good. 
(#020980)        $1,500

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