“I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer, – his manners, his mien, his exterior, – that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him – rarely in his mind.”

“I believe that there is much less difference between the author and his works than is currently supposed; it is usually in the physical appearance of the writer, – his manners, his mien, his exterior, – that he falls short of the ideal a reasonable man forms of him – rarely in his mind.”

— Edward Bulwer-Lytton