George Henry Lewes

Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.

Murder, like talent, seems occasionally to run in families.

The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.

I don't like creating software anymore. It's too exact. It's like karate; there's no room for error.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.

This is the age of insincerity. The movies had the misfortune to come along in the twentieth century, and because they appeal to the masses there can be no sincerity in them.