“My task which I am trying to achieve is, by the power of the written word, to make you hear, to make you feel – it is, above all, to make you see. That – and no more, and it is everything.”
Joseph Conrad, “Preface” to The Nigger of the Narcissus (1897)
* * *
“Most people cannot see anything, but i can see what is in front of my nose with extreme clearness; the greatest writers can see through a brick wall.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Summing Up (1938)
———
Related articles by Zemanta
- Amazon Hawks Censored Joseph Conrad Book, Calibrated for Delicate ‘Modern’ Eyes [Fahrenheit 451] (gawker.com)
- Read More Than Respected (online.wsj.com)
- Contrasting Two Story Tellers (laf.ee)
- Book Review – The Secret Lives of Somerset Maugham – By Selina Hastings (nytimes.com)
- secret somerset (3quarksdaily.com)
- TT: Entry from an unkept diary (artsjournal.com)
- Letters: Maugham’s Secret Lives (nytimes.com)
- Maugham’s Lifelong Bondage (thedailybeast.com)
