Jane Austen Quote
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Edith Wharton on Dialogue in Fiction
“Dialogue in fiction should be reserved for the culminating moments and regarded as the spray into which the great wave of narrative breaks in curving toward the watcher on the shore.”–Edith Wharton
Fernando Pessoa on Ignoring Life
Fernando Pessoa quote
Thomas Carlyle on the Magic Preservation of Books
“All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been; it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.”–Thomas Carlyle
Irving Stone on an Artist Without Ideas
“An artist without ideas is a mendicant; barren, he goes begging among the hours.”–Irving Stone, The Agony and the Ecstasy
Henry Miller on Constant Circulation
Henry Miller Quote
Virginia Woolf on the Full Sound
“I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.”–Virginia Woolf
Leo Tolstoy on Plans and Projects
Leo Tolstoy Quote
Let’s Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with George Bernard Shaw
Happy St. Patrick’s Day!
Caricature of George Bernard Shaw by Max Beerbohm
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”–George Bernard Shaw (Back to Methuselah)
Ernest Hemingway on Good Stuff
“You know you’re writing well when you’re throwing good stuff into the wastebasket.”–Ernest Hemingway
