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Percy Lubbock Quotes:

Percy Lubbock quotes

Ocupation: Essayist

Life: June 4, 1879 - August 1, 1965

Birthday: June 4

Death: August 1

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The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

source: - Percy Lubbock (2007). “The Craft of Fiction”, p.55, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Topics: Art, Thinking, Fiction

quote in fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself the thing percy lubbock Quotes

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

source: - Percy Lubbock (2007). “The Craft of Fiction”, p.56, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

Topics: Book, Writing, Simple

Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are.

source: - Percy Lubbock (1921). “The Craft of Fiction”

Topics: Eye, Writing, Substance

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