Bad literature is a form of treason.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
I've been as bad an influence on American literature as anyone I can think of.
I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.
Dictatorship and authentic literature are incompatible... The writer is the natural enemy of dictatorship.
Reverence is fatal to literature.
Disunion by force is treason.
Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.
No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human world, but that loyal love shall be able in due time to oppose to just that deed of treason its fitting deed of atonement.
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels.
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.