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Percy Lubbock Biography

Percy Lubbock, CBE (4 June 1879 – 1 August 1965) was an English man of letters, known as an essayist, critic and biographer.

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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.

Art, Fiction, Novelists, Shown, Story, Thinking

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.

Appeal, Book, Simple, Statement, True, Writing

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.

Different, Distinct, Eye, Making, Substances, Writing

Nathan Gamble

Nathan Gamble

Mary Doria Russell

Mary Doria Russell

Claire McCaskill

Claire McCaskill

Joe Piscopo

Joe Piscopo

Ron Greenwood

Ron Greenwood

Suheir Hammad

Suheir Hammad

Casimir Funk

Casimir Funk

Chris Rock

Chris Rock

Chris Lowell

Chris Lowell

Juan Carlos Onetti

Juan Carlos Onetti

Emma Hewitt

Emma Hewitt

Mel Torme

Mel Torme