human
This capacity, this zest of yours for steady work, I once remarked to him,
gpt
Well, he replied,
human
Then he went on to say of literary composition,
gpt
Genius without labor, we all know, will not keep the pot boiling. But I doubt whether one may not put too much labor into his work as well as too little, and spend too much time in polishing. Rough vigor often hits the nail better than the most studied and polished sentences. It doesn't do to write above the heads or the tastes of the people. I make it a rule to put a little good and a little bad into every page I write, and in that way I am likely to suit the taste of the average reader. The average reader is no fool, neither is he an embodiment of all the knowledge, wit, and wisdom in the world.
human
I think more of my poems and 'The Lady of Lyons' and 'Richelieu' than of all my novels, from 'Pelham' to 'What will he do with it?' (which was the last he had then written).
gpt
A poet's fame is lasting, a novelist's is comparatively ephemeral. Moved by a similar sentiment, Reade once said,
human
The most famous name in English literature and all literature is a dramatist's; and what pygmies Fielding and Smollett, and all the modern novelists, from Dickens, the head and front of them, down to that milk-and-water specimen of mediocrity, Anthony Trollope, seem beside him!
gpt
Dora and
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The Cup would have been