Source: A Room with a View (1908), Ch. 3
Context: The kingdom of music is not the kingdom of this world; it will accept those whom breeding and intellect and culture have alike rejected. The commonplace person begins to play, and shoots into the empyrean without effort, whilst we look up, marvelling how he has escaped us, and thinking how we could worship him and love him, would he but transalate his visions into human words, and his experiences into human actions.
“A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.”
Source: Essays of Three Decades (1942)
“American writers want to be not good but great; and so are neither.”
Two Sisters: A Memoir in the Form of a Novel http://books.google.com/books?id=xnJbAAAAMAAJ&q="American+writers+want+to+be+not+good+but+great+and+so+are+neither" (1970)
1970s
“The most underrated of all contemporary American writers of fiction.”
Alistair Cooke
“American writers ought to stand and live in the margins, and be more dangerous.”
The Divine Commodity: Discovering A Faith Beyond Consumer Christianity (2009, Zondervan)
“An original writer is not one who imitates nobody, but one whom nobody can imitate.”
Source: The Genius of Christianity or the Spirit and Beauty of the Christian Religion
“To whom it may concern: the present writer, at any rate, is neither a Hindu nor a nationalist.”
Source: 2000s, Asterisk in bharopiyasthan: Minor writings on the Aryan invasion debate (2007)
St. 1.
Annabel Lee (1849)
Context: It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden lived whom you may know
By the name of Annabel Lee; —
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.
