James Branch Cabell Quotes about Writing

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The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

The desire to write perfectly of beautiful happenings is, as the saying runs, old as the hills — and as immortal.

Beautiful, Running, Writing

James Branch Cabell (2012). “The Certain Hour”, p.8, The Floating Press

A man of genuine literary genius, since he possesses a temperament whose susceptibilities are of wider area than those of any other, is inevitably of all people the one most variously affected by his surroundings. And it is he, in consequence, who of all people most faithfully and compactly exhibits the impress of his times and his times' tendencies, not merely in his writings where it conceivably might be just predetermined affectation but in his personality.

James Branch Cabell

Writing, Men, People

James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, p.7, eBookIt.com

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings.

James Branch Cabell

Beautiful, Writing, Land

James Branch Cabell (2012). “The Certain Hour”, p.8, The Floating Press

James Branch Cabell Quotes about Writing

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