What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And — though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The… - V. S. Naipaul

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What matters in the end in literature, what is always there, is the truly good. And — though played out forms can throw up miraculous sports like The Importance of Being Earnest or Decline and Fall — what is good is always what is new, in both form and content. What is good forgets whatever models it might have had, and is unexpected; we have to catch it on the wing. ((p. 62, Reading & Writing)