"The first thing you have to consider when……" — Ford Madox Ford
"The first thing you have to consider when writing a novel is your story, and then your story - and then your story!"
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35 Quotes by Ford Madox Ford
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The object of the novelist is to keep the reader entirely oblivious of the fact that the author exists -…
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In every man there are two minds that work side by side, the one checking the other; thus emotion stands…
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If you hunch your shoulders too long against a storm your shoulders will grow bowed.…
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It is not merely that people must die and people must suffer, if not here, then there. But what is…
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Damn it all, it's the first duty of a soldier - it's the first duty of all Englishmen - to…
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What the artist wishes to do — as far as you are concerned — is to take you out of…
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I couldn't regard myself as personally repulsive. No man can, or, if he ever comes to do so, that is…
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Six months ago I had never been to England, and, certainly, I had never sounded the depths of an English…
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Only two classes of books are of universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.
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And it was a most remarkable, a most moving glance, as if for a moment a lighthouse had looked at…
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If you only would!" He added rather diffidently: "If you would not mind remembering that I am a military court…
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Mind, I am not preaching anything contrary to accepted morality. I am not advocating free love in this or any…
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