3 Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Authorship

Gilbert Keith Chesterton quotes on authorship

26. Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.

88. A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.

    Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

195. Possibly said by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield