‘Some People Are Just Born Good Writers’

Jill Parrott shatters the myth that you either have writing talent or you don’t.
The author-god, according to mid-20th-century language theorist Roland Barthes, embodies the Romantic notion of the artist to whom brilliant epiphanies come to be written down. In fact, at times throughout history, the best authors were believed to have been chosen and directly inspired by God himself. More...