James Branch Cabell Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

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

  James Branch Cabell

  Beautiful, Running, Writing

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

• 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

• 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

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