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Break, Bully, Honour, Love Fiction

Break, Bully, Honour, Love Fiction

Break, Bully, Honour, Love Fiction “And if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us break her and bully her, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.”–Virginia Woolf

Fiction Worth Reading For Entertainment

Fiction Worth Reading For Entertainment

Fiction Worth Reading For Entertainment “No fiction is worth reading except for entertainment. If it entertains and is clean, it is good literature, or its kind. If it forms the habit of reading, in people who might not read otherwise, it is the best literature.”–Edgar Rice Burroughs

Infinitely Stranger Is Life Than Fiction

Infinitely Stranger Is Life Than Fiction

Infinitely Stranger Is Life Than Fiction “Life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through…

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Sublime Fool Wrestling Creative Muses

Sublime Fool Wrestling Creative Muses

Sublime Fool Wrestling Creative Muses “If you want to write, if you want to create, you must be the most sublime fool that God ever turned out and sent rambling. You must write every single day of your life. You must read dreadful dumb books and glorious books, and let them wrestle in beautiful fights inside your head, vulgar one moment, brilliant the next. You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes…

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