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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Writing - Page 2

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There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public....

There should be a law that no ordinary newspaper should be allowed to write about art. The harm they do by their foolish and random writing it would be impossible to overestimate--not to the artist but to the public.... Without them we would judge a man simply by his work; but at present the newspapers are trying hard to induce the public to judge a sculptor, for instance, never by his statues but by the way he treats his wife; a painter by the amount of his income and a poet by the colour of his necktie.

Art, Writing, Men

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.648, GENERAL PRESS

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

Book, Reading, Writing

The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

It is personalities not principles that move the age.

Moving, Writing, Personality

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.217, Oxford University Press on Demand

Anybody can make history; only a great man can write it.

Writing, Greatness, Men

Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

The ancient historians gave us delightful fiction in the form of fact; the modern novelist presents us with dull facts under the guise of fiction.

Writing, Novelists, Fiction

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.838, GENERAL PRESS

He would stab his best friend for the sake of writing an epigraph on his tombstone.

Betrayal, Tombstone, Writing

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

Book, Reading, Writing

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories”, p.45, Penguin

Actions are the first tragedy in life, words are the second. Words are perhaps the worst. Words are merciless. . .

Book, Reading, Writing

Oscar Wilde (2014). “Epigrams and Aphorisms”, p.37, BoD – Books on Demand

Books are never finished, They are merely abandoned.

Book, Writing, Abandoned

From the point of view of literature Mr. Kipling is a genius who drops his aspirates. From the point of view of life, he is a reporter who knows vulgarity better than any one has ever known it.

Writing, Views, Genius

Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1012, Wordsworth Editions

That is the mission of art - to make us pause and look at a thing a second time.

Art, Writing, Looks

Oscar Wilde (2007). “Epigrams of Oscar Wilde”, p.41, Wordsworth Editions

George Moore wrote brilliant English until he discovered grammar.

Writing, Brilliant, Grammar

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

Book, Writing, Reading Literature

The Picture of Dorian Gray preface (1891)

Sin is a thing that writes itself across a man's face. It cannot be concealed. People talk sometimes of secret vices, there are no such things. If a wretched man has a vice, it shows itself in the lines of his mouth, the droop of his eyelids, the moulding of his hands even.

Writing, Men, Hands

Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.293, Oxford University Press on Demand

His style is chaos illumined by flashes of lightning. As a writer he has mastered everything except language.

Writing, Style, Lightning

Oscar Wilde, Isobel Murray (2008). “Oscar Wilde - The Major Works”, p.221, Oxford University Press

My writing has gone to bits - like my character. I am simply a self-conscious nerve in pain.

Pain, Writing, Character

Oscar Wilde (2014). “The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde”, p.183, Courier Corporation

Anybody can write a three-volume novel. It merely requires a complete ignorance of both life and literature.

Writing, Ignorance, Three

Intentions "The Critic as Artist" pt. 1 (1891)

Mr. Henry James writes fiction as if it were a painful duty.

Writing, Fiction, Painful

Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.740, GENERAL PRESS

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