“There is a certain movement which carries the reader on, and a rhythm that is soothing.”
Source: George Sand: some aspects of her life and work
“Her language is like those rivers which flow along and limped, between flowery banks and oases of verdure, rivers by the side of which the traveller loves to linger and lose himself in dreams.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“The share which belongs to George Sand in the history of the French novel is having impregnated the novel with the poetry in her soul.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“People have wondered by what fit of imagination, George Sand, when telling such a wholesome story of country life, should evoke the ghastly vision of Holbein’s Dance of Death.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“I myself grew up to be not only a Hero, but also a Writer. When I was an adult, I rewrote A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons, and I included not only some descriptions of the various deadly dragon species, and a useful Dragonese Dictionary, but also this story of how the book came to be written in the first place.
This is the book that you are holding in your hands right now.
Perhaps you even borrowed it from a Library?
If so, thank Thor that the sinister figure of the Hairy Scary Librarian is not lurking around a corner, hiding in the shadows, Heart-Slicers at the ready, or that the punishment for your curiosity is not the whirring whine of a Driller Dragon's drill.
You, dear reader, I am sure cannot imagine what it might to be like to live in a world in which books are banned.
For surely such things will never happen in the Future?
Thank Thor that you live in a time and a place where people have the right to live and think and write and read their books in peace, and there are no need for Heroes anymore ...
And spare a thought for those who have not been so lucky.”
Source: A Hero's Guide to Deadly Dragons
“We believe that the mission of art is a mission of sentiment and of love, and that the novel of to-day ought to take the place of the parable and the apologue of more primitive times.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“She wanted to breathe in the atmosphere of a revelation, and she was soon intoxicated by it.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“She goes on dreaming this of the stars. Everything she hears, everything she sees enchants her. The most absurd measures delight her.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“With George Sand’s collaboration, the Bulletin de la Republique became unexpectedly interesting.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings
“It was impossible for her to be without one, although, with her vivid imagination, she changed idols frequently.”
Source: George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings