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 | |