"The fact is, you have much to learn; but you are young, you will learn."
"Tell me what needs to be done in fiction?"
"Everything, just as in the drama."
"But I thought we had some excellent novels."
"What have you read in the way of novels?"
"Those of Lesage, Madame Cottin and Pigault-Lebrun."
"What effect did they have on you?"
"Lesage's novels amused me; Madame Cottin's made me cry; Pigault-Lebrun's made me laugh."
"Then you have not read either Goethe, or Walter Scott, or Cooper?"
"I have not read either Goethe, or Walter Scott, or Cooper."