"To study the craft, to follow the process, to read constructively" / Percy Lubbock
"The world, the temporal world, rests on a few very simple ideas....It rests notably, amongst others, on the idea of fidelity" / Joseph Conrad
" I should like to confess my surprise on finding that notwithstanding all its apparatus of analysis the story consists for the most part of physical impresions" / Joseph Conrad
'As to the story itself, it is true enough in its essentials. The sustained invention of a really telling lie demands a talent which I do not possess." / Joseph Conrad
"The way to do a thing that shall make it undergo most doing" / Henry James
"He sought the paragraph, and afterwards the page, and after the page the chapter. And the chapter was sought in relation to the book: the book was always in his mind ..." / George Moore
"It must strenuously aspire to the plasticity of sculpture, to the colour of painting, and to the magic suggestiveness of music
which is the art of arts." / Joseph Conrad.
