Quotes About Novelists

outrage" (28). This is the perspective of the survivors, and it is one neither novelist nor historians, philosophers nor theologians should try to "transcend.

It did not induce brain fever, or harm her so, belles lectrices. If we went down under every stroke in that way as novelists assume, we should all be loved of Heaven if that love be shown by early graves, as the old Greeks say.

When those poor devils of novelists jumble a lot of impossible coincidences all pell-mell together without building plan, or sequence, or any sort of sense, they are all wrong as to Art, clearly, but they are awfully true to Life.

But behind the superficial appearance of a time of radical upheaval, most governments and ordinary people simply did not experience the Belle Époque in the way today's wistful novelists, TV producers and cultural historians present