H. L. Mencken Quotes About Joy

• There is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Discovery, Joy

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.85, Рипол Классик

• To the man with an ear for verbal delicacies- the man who searches painfully for the perfect word, and puts the way of saying a thing above the thing said - there is in writing the constant joy of sudden discovery, of happy accident.

  H. L. Mencken

  Happiness, Writing, Men

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.85, Рипол Классик

• The aim of poetry, it appears, is to fill the mind with lofty thoughts--not to give it joy, but to give it a grand and somewhat gaudy sense of virtue. The essay is a weapon against the degenerate tendencies of the age. The novel, properly conceived, is a means of uplifting the spirit; its aim is to inspire, not merely to satisfy the low curiosity of man in man.

  H. L. Mencken

  Uplifting, Mean, Men

  H. L. Mencken, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers (2010). “H.L. Mencken: Prejudices: First, Second, and Third Series”, Hubsta Ltd

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