PG EDITOR'S BOOKMARKS:

Artist has seasons, as trees, when he cannot blossom Book that they are content to know at second hand Business to take advantage of his necessity Competition has deformed human nature Conditions of hucksters imposed upon poets Fate of a book is in the hands of the women God of chance leads them into temptation and adversity Historian, who is a kind of inferior realist I do not think any man ought to live by an art If he has not enjoyed writing no one will enjoy reading Impropriety if not indecency promises literary success Literature beautiful only through the intelligence Literature has no objective value Literature is Business as well as Art Man is strange to himself as long as he lives Men read the newspapers, but our women read the books More zeal than knowledge in it Most journalists would have been literary men if they could Never quite sure of life unless I find literature in it No man ought to live by any art No rose blooms right along Our huckstering civilization Public whose taste is so crude that they cannot enjoy the best Results of art should be free to all Reviewers Reward is in the serial and not in the book—19th Century Rogues in every walk of life There is small love of pure literature Two branches of the novelist's trade: Novelist and Historian Warner's Backlog Studies Work not truly priced in money cannot be truly paid in money