They stand their ground year after year and will not be persuaded. That immensely enlarges the audience.”Ĩ. “There are some books that refuse to be written. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself…Anybody can have ideas–the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph.”Ħ. “there was no crime in unconscious plagiarism that I committed it everyday, that he committed it everyday, that every man alive on earth who writes or speaks commits it every day and not merely once or twice but every time he open his mouth… there is nothing of our own in it except some slight change born of our temperament, character, environment, teachings and associations”ħ. “I conceive that the right way to write a story for boys is to write so that it will not only interest boys but strongly interest any man who has ever been a boy. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell together, as quickly as possible.”ĥ. “To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. It is like laughing at your own joke.”Ĥ. “The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters the good to succeed, the bad to fail. Every time I read Pride and Prejudice I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.”Ģ. “A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it.”ģ. “One should never use exclamation points in writing. I often want to criticize Jane Austen, but her books madden me so that I can’t conceal my frenzy from the reader and therefore I have to stop every time I begin. 1. “I haven’t any right to criticize books, and I don’t do it except when I hate them.
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