"It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for something you are not."
"The bad novelist constructs his characters; he directs them and makes them speak. The true novelist listens to them and watches them act; he hears their voices even before he knows them."
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Source: Journals 1889-1949: Literature and Ethics, 1901.
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