Charles Reade Quote

First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction


CHAPTER I - Peg Woffington (1853)


First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction

First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction

First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction

First, think in as homely a way as you can; next, shove your pen under the thought, and lift it by polysyllables to the true level of fiction