Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Percy Lubbock

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Last updated on April 14, 2025.

Percy Lubbock, CBE was an English man of letters, known as an essayist, critic and biographer. His controversial book The Craft of Fiction gained influence in the 1920s.

English - Essayist | June 4, 1879 - August 1, 1965

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Many different substances, as distinct to the practiced eye as stone and wood, go to the making of a novel, and it is necessary to see them for what they are.

Percy Lubbock

The art of fiction does not begin until the novelist thinks of his story as a matter to be shown, to be so exhibited that it will tell itself.

Percy Lubbock

In fiction there can be no appeal to any authority outside the book itself. . . . the thing has to look true, and that is all. It is not made to look true by simple statement.

Percy Lubbock

Top 3 Quotes & Sayings by Percy Lubbock

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