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-- W.Somerset Maugham on "Wuthering Heights"
(Great Novelists and Their Novels:Essays on the Ten Greatest Novels of the World,and the Men and Women Who Wrote Them)
Emily was inspired by some more general conception.The impulse which urged her to create was not her own suffering or her own injuries.She looked out upon a world cleft into gigantic disorder and felt within her the power to unite it in a book.
-- Virginia Woolf (The Common Reader)