Our Country Has Shown A Lack Of

There Is A Curious Law Of Art... That Even The Attempt To Reproduce The Act Of Seeing, When Carried Out With Sufficient Energy, Tends To Lose Its Realism And Take On The Unnatural Glittering Intensity Of Hallucination.

For The Serious Mediocre Writer Convention Makes Him Sound Like A Lot Of Other People; For The Popular Writer It Gives Him A Formula He Can Exploit; For The Serious Good Writer It Releases His Experiences Or Emotions From Himself And Incorporates Them Into Literature, Where They Belong.

We Find Rhetorical Situations Everywhere In Life, And Only Our Imaginations Can Get Us Out Of Them.

The World Of Literature Is A World Where There Is No Reality Except That Of The Human Imagination.

The Tremendous Efficiency And Economy Of The Book Has Once Again Demonstrated Itself. It's The World's Most Patient Medium.