Read it through once

I have spoken of English fiction; but these ideas apply to all modern writing. The novel in every language is suffering from the same disease — from an excessive trust in the external fact. Something must be done to retrieve the truth of experience. If the novelist of the future will attend to the life of consciousness, if he will endeavour to present that life with honesty and subtlety, he will give us a new art, an art that will be faithful to the truth and yet beautiful.