Literary Creation Quotes

“It was only much later that he was made flesh and blood [in the Gospels] on paper. Thus Christ was created as a literary creation.”
― Paul Louis Couchoud

“Some very eminent critics writing in the decades immediately after the novel's publication felt that Eliot failed to maintain sufficient critical distance in her depiction of Ladislaw--that she fell in love with her own creation in a way that shows a lack of artistic control and is even unseemly, like a hoary movie director whose lens lingers too long on the young flesh of a favored actress. Lord David Cecil calls Ladislaw 'a schoolgirl's dream, and a vulgar one at that,' while Leslie Stephen complained 'Ladislaw is almost obtrusively a favorite with his creator,' and depreciated him as 'an amiable Bohemian.”
― Rebecca Mead, My Life in Middlemarch

“labrar palabras como quien labra la tierra es la única arma permitida.”
― Cecilia Vicuña, PALABRARmas