[Becoming A Writer] The Author's Subject - Walter S. Campbell

This subject may be compared to the grain of sand which gets into an oyster and forms the irritating nucleus of a pearl. It is seldom that the author chooses it; rather, it chooses him, inhabits him, and may remain with him throughout life. Every piece of work he turns out has or lacks quality according to the degree in which this intimate subject appears in it.
Fortunately for those who wish to write, nearly every human being has a grain of sand in him somewhere. Something ails him, something – a frustration, inhibition, disillusionment, shame, fear, distress, or mere fixation. Any of these will do very nicely, provided the author has the wit to handle it.
For literature is the notation of the human heart, and without that grain of sand to set the writer going, there would be nothing to read, nothing written. Subject-matter is only the raw material through which the intimate subject works...
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