Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes about Writing

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What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

What I like in a good author is not what he says but what he whispers.

Logan Pearsall Smith

Inspirational, Book, Writing

All Trivia (1933) "Afterthoughts" pt. 5

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

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

Art, Real, Writing

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”

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

Logan Pearsall Smith Quotes about Writing

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