LUCK OF A BOOK
“ If a genuinely gifted novel by an unknown hand appears to-day, during the busy season, what happens. may pass entirely unnoticed, though —chiefly, perhaps, owing to the persevering efforts of newspaper criticsi—this fate is not very common. A more probable fate for such a book is to receive a few encouraging reviews, to sell, perhaps, just enough copies to pay publishing expenses, and then to pass into obscurity in oi’der to hiuke way for some new work equally promising and equally transient. If any young author is to achieve a great popular success* he nearly always requires a fair measure of luck as well as native ability. Some eminent critic, perhaps, happens to read the book, and decides to give it a ‘splash’; or some incident in it provokes discussion, and so the ball is set rolling. Once this happens, the author’s fortune is made.” —Yorkshire Post.
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Waipa Post, Volume 41, Issue 3187, 12 August 1930, Page 7
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