Personal experience is the basis of all real Literature.
More Quotes from George Henry Lewes:
The object of Literature is to instruct, to animate, or to amuse.George Henry Lewes
As all Art depends on Vision, so the different kinds of Art depend on the different ways in which minds look at things.
George Henry Lewes
In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.
George Henry Lewes
Insincerity is always weakness; sincerity even in error is strength.
George Henry Lewes
Language, after all, is only the use of symbols, and Art also can only affect us through symbols.
George Henry Lewes
The delusions of self-love cannot be prevented, but intellectual misconceptions as to the means of achieving success may be corrected.
George Henry Lewes
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