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Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things.
The honest thief, the tender murderer,
The superstitious atheist.
If you write fiction you are, in a sense, corrupted. There's a tremendous corruptibility for the fiction writer because you're dea ...
Novelists are perhaps the last people in the world to be entrusted with opinions. The nature of a novel is that it has no opinions ...
I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility--I wish the history to be natural though the sent ...
But I hate things all fiction ... there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric--and pure invention is b ...
Romances I ne'er read like those I have seen.
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
A novel is never anything but a philosophy put into images.
"When I used to read fairy tales, I fancied that kind of thing never happened, and now here I am in the middle of one! There ought ...
Since the fin has come a little early this siecle and anomie is all the rage, wry, dry tenderness is a suspect commodity.
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