"For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him……" — Northrop Frye

"For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula he can exploit; for the serious good writer it releases his experiences or emotions from himself and incorporates them into literature, where they belong."

— Northrop Frye

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