All bad Literature rests upon imperfect insight, or upon imitation, which may be defined as seeing at second-hand.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Anything in literature, including memory, is second-hand.
The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art.
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
All good Literature rests primarily on insight.
The attempt to devote oneself to literature alone is a most deceptive thing, and often, paradoxically, it is literature that suffers for it.
As a writer I've learned certain lessons. One of them is to be careful about how you put a view, and to bear in mind how easily and readily you'll be misinterpreted.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
Observing humans and observing oneself yields a clear-minded starting point for literature.
Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.