Quote of the Day (Ford Madox Ford, on an Author’s First Lesson)

“The first lesson that an author has to learn is that of humility…. Before everything the author must learn to suppress himself: he must learn that the first thing he has to consider is his story and the last thing that he has to consider is his story, and in between that he will consider his story."—English novelist and editor Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939), Joseph Conrad: A Personal Remembrance (1924)