James Wood
Quotes by James Wood
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Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking.
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Convention itself, like metaphor itself, is not dead; but it is always dying.
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Convention itself, like metaphor itself, is not dead; but it is always dying.
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Narrative secrets are not the same as human mysteries, a lesson that novelists seem fates to forget, again and again; the former quickly confess themselves, and fall silent, while the true mysteries go on speaking.
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... though the truth and worth of the sayings are nowise dependent on their authorship, it is well to know who those were that felt the burden they express, and found relief in uttering them.
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If the quality be good, the quantity is of little account ...
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