Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes About Writing
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What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and mysterious, moth-like meditations hover in my imagination, fanning their painted wings. But always the rarest, those streaked with azure and the deepest crimson, flutter away beyond my reach.
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The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.
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Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.
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But why wasn't I born, alas, in an age of Adjectives; why can one no longer write of silver-shedding Tears and moon-tailed Peacocks, of eloquent Death, of the Negro and star-enameled Night?
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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.
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