no heart or all heart and no head makes no essential difference. Only the vitalist has this advantage that if it is all story and no idea it can run, but if it is all idea and no story it is more difficult [...]Sri Aurobindo
Letters of Sri Aurobindo
Volume 1
Letter ID: 400
Sri Aurobindo — Roy, Dilip Kumar
September 29, 1933
I don’t see why there should be any dispute about the matter. A good novel is a good novel – whether it is all head and no heart or all heart and no head makes no essential difference. Only the vitalist has this advantage that if it is all story and no idea it can run, but if it is all idea and no story it is more difficult [...]