Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes About Writing

• Lo que me gusta de un buen autor no es lo que dice, sino lo que susurra.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Inspiración, Libro, Escritura

  All Trivia (1933) "Afterthoughts" pt. 5

• The great art of writing is the art of making people real to themselves with words.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Arte, Real, Escritura

• 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?

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Death, Stars, Writing

• 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.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Gay, Wings

• Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

  Logan Pearsall Smith

  Writing, Vanity, Cells

  Logan Pearsall Smith (1931). “Afterthoughts”

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