H.G. Wells, a great artist, was my favourite writer when I was a boy. The Passionate Friends, Ann Veronica, The Time Machine, The Country of the Blind, all these stories are far better than anything Bennett, or Conrad, or, in fact, any of Wells' contemporaries would produce. His sociological cogitations can be safely ignored, of course, but his romances and fantasies are superb.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "H.G. Wells, a great artist, was my favourite writer when I was a boy. The Passionate Friends, Ann Veronica, The Time Machine, The Country of the Blind, all these stories are far better than anything Bennett, or Conrad, or, in fact, any of Wells' contemporaries would produce. His sociological cogitations can be safely ignored, of course, but his romances and fantasies are superb." in the context of "Vladimir Nabokov, in Herbert Gold, "Interview with Vladimir Nabokov". Reprinted in George Plimpton, Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews. Viking Press, 1976." to mean that wisdom is timeless.