The street is noisy and the men and women are not perfect in the technique of their expression as the statues are. The Chinese Novel (1938)
His whole duty is only to sort life as it flows through him, and in the vast fragmentariness of time and space and event to discover essential and inherent order and rhythm and shape. The Chinese Novel (1938)
Story belongs to the people. They are sounder judges of it than anyone else, for their senses are unspoiled and their emotions are free. The Chinese Novel (1938)
The waters of the genius of story gushed out as they would, however the natural rocks allowed and the trees persuaded, and only common people came and drank and found rest and pleasure. The Chinese Novel (1938)
I grew up believing that the novel has nothing to do with pure literature. So I was taught by scholars. The Chinese Novel (1938)
The creative instinct is, in its final analysis and in its simplest terms, an enormous extra vitality, a super-energy, born inexplicably in an individual, a vitality great beyond all the needs of his own living — an energy which no single life can consume. The Chinese Novel (1938)