| Mark Twain | My books are simply autobiographies |
| Henry James | Consiocus artistry&treatment of the subject is the key |
| Henry James | 'bad' novels and 'good' novels are matter of taste |
| Henry James | The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life |
| William Dean Howells | nothing more& nothing less that trustful treatment of material |
| John Steinbeck | modern AAmerican nostalgia for the primitive, the counter-reaction(...) |
| Charlotte Perkins Gilman | women's work& woman themselves should be separated fromthe domestic sphere |
| Francis Scott Fitzgerald | a new generation, grown up to find all bods dead, all wars faught, all faiths in man shaken |
| Gertrude Stein | you are all a lost generation |
| Matthew Cowley | the extintion of the fittest |
| Ernest Hemingway | literature is architecture, not inferior decoration and the Baroque is over |
| Ernest Hemingway | a man can be destroyed but not defeated |
| J. Howe | a moraal faable of which the materials derive from Southern (...) |
| Robert Frost | free verse is like playing tennis without a net |