Quotes by Stevens, Wallace

The imagination is man's power over nature. >>

Nothing could be more inappropriate to American literature than its En >>

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of n >>

Quotations about Fiction

Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecut >>

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction me >>

I at least have so much to do in unraveling certain human lots, and se >>

Democritus plucked his eye out because he could not look at a woman without thinking of her as a woman. If he had read a few of our novels, he would have torn himself to pieces.

Stevens, Wallace