Status Updates From Modern Fiction

“If we fasten, then, one label on all these books, on which is one word materialists, we mean by it that they write of unimportant things; that they spend immense skill and immense industry making the trivial and the transitory appear the true and the enduring”

Shocked I never read this, it's an English major classic. Pretty quick and easy read considering how it's super short. I mostly agree with it though I honestly tend not to like a lot of modernist writings which go so abstract they're hard to read as stories (Mrs. Dalloway, The Burrow).

We do not come to write better; all that we can be said to do is to keep moving, now a little in this direction, now in that, but with a circular tendency should the whole course of the track be viewed from a sufficiently lofty pinnacle.