Anais Nin attempts and struggles off and on to take what she has written in her Diary and create portraits of people to use in novels. Her biggest struggle is putting words into their mouths because she knows only what she feels, what she would say in a given situation. The novel she is currently working on is This Hunger.
She says, "trying to extract complete characters from the maze of the diary. Trying to construct a story. But a novel is the opposite of life. Discovery that characters are revealed in fragments, not all at once; and during our lifetime we rarely make a synthesis. I cannot work in the artificial form of the novel. I have to follow free associations from another source, to trace character not in the outward manifestations but in its underground life, in the development of its night life."
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