Explore "The Writing of Fiction" by Edith Wharton on Textopian. Read with annotations and highlights.
Hitherto I have only praised.
In writing of a great creative artist, and especially of one whose work is over, it is always better worth while to dwell on the beauties than to hunt down the blemishes. Where the qualities outweigh the defects the latter lose much of their importance, even when, as sometimes in Proust's case, they are defects in the moral sensibility, that tuning-fork of the novelist's art.