Robert Louis Stevenson: “The difficulty of literature is not to write, but to write what you mean; not to affect your reader, but to affect him precisely as you wish.”
Jane Austen, “Northanger Abbey”: “The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
Literature is an art of writing to present the characters, events, things of a society or of surroundings vividly to affect the reader precisely what the writer wish.
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