Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Quotes about Writing

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Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Writing, Creating, Doe

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1993). “Frankenstein”, p.3, Wordsworth Editions

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Dream, Writing, Fantastic

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein: Or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.7

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Writing, Dark, Creating

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1869). “Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus”, p.10