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• Any work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
  -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short story write...
• A word carries far -- very far -- deals destruction through time as the bullets go flying through space.
  -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short story write...
• An artist is a man of action, whether he creates a personality, invents an expedient, or finds the issue of a complicated situation.
  -- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924) Polish novelist, short story write...
• He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word.
  The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense....
• Art is like baby shoes. When you coat them with gold, they can no longer be worn.
  -- John Updike (1932-__), U.S. novelist, short-story writer, poe...
• A work that aspires, however humbly, to the condition of art should carry its justification in every line.
  -- Joseph Conrad...
• The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary
  men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. -- Joseph Conrad...
• Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren.
  -- Edmund Burke (1729-1797) -- Speech on the Conciliation of America, Vol. ii, p. 116...
• NOVEL, n. A short story padded. A species of composition bearing the same relation to literature that the panorama bears to art.
  As it is too long to be read at a sitting the impressions made by its successive parts are successively effaced, as in the panorama....