Famous quotes containing the words documentary and/or subject:
“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)
“When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.”
—William Hazlitt (1778–1830)