"I hold any writer sufficiently justified who is himself in love with his theme." -- Henry James
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Daily Dose
From Brief Lives: Wilkie Collins, by Melisa Klimaszewski
OBJECT
"Readers who object to expletives in books, are -- as to my experience -- readers who object to a great many other things in books, which they are too stupid to understand."
From a letter to his publisher, dated September 25th, 1869
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