Mediocrity would always win by force of numbers, but it would win only more mediocrity.
It is easy to convince a man who already thinks as you do.
for my own purpose, I defined the art of fiction as experience illuminated.
The transcendental point of view, the habit of thought bred by communion with earth and sky, had refined the grain while it had roughened the husk.
A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.
For me, the novel is experience illumined by imagination.