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"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
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"A man reading the Dickens novel wished that it might never end. Men read a Dickens story six times because they knew it so well."
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"Every healthy person at some period must feed on fiction as well as fact; because fact is a thing which the world gives to him, whereas fiction is a thing which he gives to the world."
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"The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a single problem into another form. ... It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell."
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"Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman."
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"And she never could remember and ever since that day what Lucy means by a good story is a story which reminds her of the forgotten story in the Magician's Book."
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"It is usually unbearably painful to read a book by an author who knows way less than you do, unless the book is a novel."
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"The atmosphere of orthodoxy is always damaging to prose, and above all it is completely ruinous to the novel, the most anarchical of all forms of literature."
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"If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago."
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"Good characters in fiction are the very devil. Not only because most authors have too little material to make them of, but because we as readers have a strong subconscious wish to find them incredible."
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"A book may be compared to your neighbour: if it be good it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early."
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"A man of genius has a right to any mode of expression."
Genius
"Somebody said that I am the last American living the tragedy of Europe."
Geography
"I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later."
Work
"People find ideas a bore because they do not distinguish between live ones and stuffed ones on a shelf."
People
"I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown."
Thought
"No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents."
Learning
"The act of bell ringing is symbolic of all proselytizing religions. It implies the pointless interference with the quiet of other people."
People
"If a nation's literature declines, the nation atrophies and decays."
Literature
"The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy."
Creativity
"Great literature is simply language charged with meaning to the utmost possible degree."
Language
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