The Craft of Fiction Quotes

“Even at the moment when the last page is turned, a great part of the book, its finer detail, is already vague and doubtful. A little later, after a few days or months, how much is really left of it?”
― Percy Lubbock, The Craft of Fiction

“What was the novelist's intention, in a phrase? If it cannot be put into a phrase it is no subject for a novel.”
― Percy Lubbock, The Craft of Fiction