H.L. Mencken Quotes
Two Avenues Of Approach To These Rewards Lie Open To The Ambitious Fictioneer. On The One Hand, He May Throw All Intelligible Standards Of Merit To The Winds, And Devote Himself To Manufacturing New Stories That Are Frankly Bad, Trusting To The Fact That Nine Persons Out Of Ten Are Utterly Devoid Of Esthetic Sense And Hence Unable To Tell The Bad From The Good. And On The Other Hand, He May Take Stories, Or Parts Of Stories That Have Been Told Before, Or That, In Themselves, Are Scarcely Worth The Telling, And So Encrust Them With The Ornaments Of Wit, Of Shrewd Observation, Of Human Sympathy And Of Style
in Brief, So Develop Them
that Readers Of Good Taste Will Forget The Unsoundness Of The Material In Admiration Of The Ingenious And Workmanlike Way In Which It Is Handled.
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