George Moore Quote

One thing that cannot be denied to the realists: a constant and intense desire to write well, to write artistically. When I think of what they have done in the matter of the use of words, of the myriad verbal effects they have discovered, of the thousand forms of composition they have created, how they have remodelled and refashioned the language in their untiring striving for intensity of expression for the very osmazome of art, I am lost in ultimate wonder and admiration.


Ch. 13. - Confessions of a Young Man (1886)


One thing that cannot be denied to the realists: a constant and intense desire to write well, to write artistically. When I think of what they have...

One thing that cannot be denied to the realists: a constant and intense desire to write well, to write artistically. When I think of what they have...

One thing that cannot be denied to the realists: a constant and intense desire to write well, to write artistically. When I think of what they have...

One thing that cannot be denied to the realists: a constant and intense desire to write well, to write artistically. When I think of what they have...