Do good writers feel more too? I thought good writers are just better at articulating their thoughts. But it seems to me that being articulate also changes your subjective experience? Steven pinker refutes this thought though. Like I can’t for the life of me describe a perfume’s scent like sasha chapin does here. I guess the first reason why is I’m not so weirdly interested in perfumes. second is even if I was I don’t have the skills to grasp what I’m feeling, or probably wouldn’t feel that way cause I don’t have his literary skills.
Does he feel so vividly a thing as trivial as a perfume’s scent just because he can put pen to paper on those feelings?