Read it through once

To write in this way requires a new technique. The old method — of telling and describing — must be supplemented by one that records. The novelist must learn to place side by side impressions, to let them confront each other without forcing them into an ordered narrative. He must accept the right of his characters to be inconsistent, to be full of contradiction. For the mind is not a coherent machine; it is a cloud of sparks. The writer must therefore abandon the desire to explain everything. He must be content to suggest, to imply, to indicate. By such means the complexity of life may be rendered.