George Gissing Quotes about Writing

And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who

And why should any man who writes, even if he writes things immortal, nurse anger at the world's neglect? Who asked him to publish? Who promised him a hearing? Who has broken faith with him? Your poem, your novel, who bargained with you for it?

George Gissing

Writing, Men, Nurse

George Gissing (2008). “The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft”, p.2, Cosimo, Inc.

This writer, who is horribly perspicacious and vigorous, demonstrates the certainty of a great European war, and regards it with the peculiar satisfaction excited by such things in a certain order of mind. His phrases about "dire calamity" and so on mean nothing; the whole tenor of his writing proves that he represents, and consciously, one of the forces which go to bring war about; his part in the business is a fluent irresponsibility, which casts scorn on all who reluct at the "inevitable." Persistent prophecy is a familiar way of assuring the event.

George Gissing

War, Writing, Mean

"The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft". Book by George Gissing. Summer, § VII, p. 89, 1903.

People have got that ancient prejudice so firmly rooted in their heads that one mustn't write save at I the dictation of the Holy Spirit. I tell you, writing is a business.

George Gissing

Writing, People, Prejudice

George Gissing (2015). “New Grub Street”, p.11, Booklassic

George Gissing Quotes about Writing

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