I quite admit that modern novels have many good points. All I insist on is that, as a class, they are quite unreadable.
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From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates.
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Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.
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There is no such thing as a moral or immoral book. Books are either well written or badly written. That is all.
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The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable, and literature is not read.
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Modern journalism justifies its own existence by the great Darwinian principle of the survival of the vulgares. I have only to do with literature.
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The transformation of Dr Jekyll reads dangerously like an experiment out of the Lancet.
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Are there ideas to make books better? I'm afraid not.
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It must be perfectly easy in half an hour to say whether a book is worth anything or worth nothing. Ten minutes are really sufficient, if one has the instinct for form.
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The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.
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