Though It Sounds Absurd, It Is True

Doesn't All Experience Crumble In The End To Mere Literary Material?

The Age Is A Vociferous One, And No Prophet Is Without Honor Who Is Able To Strike An Attitude And To Speak Loud Enough To Make Himself Heard.

Surely The Novel Should Be A Form Of Art - But Art Was Not Enough. It Must Contain Not Only The Perfection Of Art, But The Imperfection Of Nature.

I Revolted From Sentimentality, Less Because It Was False Than Because It Was Cruel.

Knowledge, Like Experience, Is Valid In Fiction Only After It Has Dissolved And Filtered Down Through The Imagination Into Reality.