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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.

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The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
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Percy Lubbock

Percy Lubbock

Born: June 4, 1879
Died: August 1, 1965 (aged 86)
Bio: Percy Lubbock was an English man of letters, known as an essayist, critic and biographer.
Known for:
  1. The Craft of Fiction (1921)
  2. Earlham (1922)
  3. A Book of English Prose, Part II
  4. Roman Pictures (1923)
  5. George Calderon, a sketch from memory (1921)

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