Gilbert Keith Chesterton Quotes on Authorship
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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.
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A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
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Possibly said by Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield