Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed from one another. The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the prope

Originality is nothing by judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

Originality is nothing but judicious imitation. The most original writers borrowed one from another.

A writer fails, not when a reader is not moved; but when, as a reader, the writer is not moved.

I had once tried to write, had once reveled in feeling, had let m crude imagination roam, but the impulse to dream had been slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and i hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing. It was not a matter of believing or disbelieving what I read, but of feeling something new, of being affected by something that made the look of the world different.