William Sawrey Gilpin - Author

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“An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.”
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“There is then creative reading as well as creative writing. When the mind is braced by labor and invention, the page of whatever book we read becomes luminous with manifold allusion. Every sentence is doubly significant, and the sense of our author is as broad as the world.”
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