Maddocks’s Law of Literature
Novelists with the most damned consciences tend to write the most blessed prose.
Source: Time magazine June 7th 1971
Reviewing Thomas Keneally’s A Dutiful Daughter in Time magazine, Melvin Maddocks introduced this law in this manner: “One of the soundest laws of modern literature goes like this: Novelists with the most damned consciences tend to write the most blessed prose. On the lengthy roster headed, of course, by Joyce, Thomas Kenneally supplies another case in point”.
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