Category:Authorship

The public is composed of numerous groups crying out: Console me, amuse me, sadden me, touch me, make me dream, laugh, shudder, weep, think. But the fine spirit says to the artist: Make something beautiful in the form that suits you, according to your personal temperament. — GUY DE MAUPASSANT, Pierre et Jean, Preface.

That story is good which is shot through with the author's personality, which gives us most fully and entirely his perception and emotion and his personal vision of the world. He may perceive a multitude of things, but until he translates the perceptions into himself, impregnates them with individuality and significance, his story amounts to little. —HARPER'S WEEKLY, Editorial, May 23, 1908.