Language, that is to say, is a tricky problem that any serious writer has to face, because there is such a big difference between [p. xvi] the language we write in and the language we speak.
AR: luġaẗ, kātib, fannī (fann) EN: …
فإنْ استعملنا الأولى ظهرت متكلّفة متنافرة شاذّة بعيدة عن الفنّ الذي يتطلّب المسحة الحقيقية والدقّة في تصوير الألوان المحلّية ،
If we use the former it appears mannered, inadequate, unnatural, far from the type of art that demands that the description of local colour be marked by realism and precision.
because the effect they have on the mind is most profound and because they help the writer study all the givens and issues, whether practical or philosophical or social or moral or psychological.