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The traveler from Europe edges into it like a tiny Jonah entering an inconceivably large whale, slipping past the strait — Northrop Frye, The Bush Garden

The most important thing about reading is not the level of sophistication of the books on your self. There is no prerequ — Lauren Leto

Nature to all things fixed the limits fitAnd wisely curbed proud man's pretending wit.As on the land while here the ocea — Alexander Pope, An Essay on Criticism

I would have died, before a literary agent ever committed to my book. This is why I chose to empower myself by self publ — Mary Sage Nguyen

A novel, in which all is created by the author's whim, must strike a more profound level of truth, or it is worthless."" — Steven Brust, Sethra Lavode

The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single typeof propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly — Peter Swirski, Of Literature and Knowledge: Explorations in Narrative Thought Experiments, Evolution, and Game Theory

Literary criticism can be no more than a reasoned account of the feeling produced upon the critic by the book he is crit — D.H. Lawrence

If someone's personhood is in doubt (or seen as lacking), all the easier to direct death wishes at them. When a tiny min — José Alaniz, Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age and Beyond

$The double consequence of artifice--to project sentience out onto the made world and in turn to make sentience itself into a complex living artifact--is thus fractured, neatly fractured, into two sepa — Elaine Scarry The Body in Pain$

Mankind is immortalin the comic perspective not by virtue of man's subjugation of naturebut by virtue of man's subjectio — Rose A. Zimbardo

The Lethean Library, for all its incalculable volumes, is, I know, sadly incomplete without Mr. Goodman's effort. — Vladimir Nabokov, The Real Life of Sebastian Knight

Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtf — Percy Lubbock, The Craft of Fiction

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