05:25 am - QotD
From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2008-01-30:
"With such a power at his command Dickens made his books blaze up, not by tightening the plot or sharpening the wit, but by throwing another handful of people on the fire." -- Virginia Woolf on the writing of Charles Dickens. Quoted in Stephen Wall's Charles Dickens: A Critical Anthology.
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