Documentary Mention

Famous quotes containing the words documentary and/or mention:

“What is a novel if not a conviction of our fellow-men’s existence strong enough to take upon itself a form of imagined life clearer than reality and whose accumulated verisimilitude of selected episodes puts to shame the pride of documentary history?”
—Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)

“Why should I mention Io? Why indeed?
I have no notion why.”
—A.E. (Alfred Edward)