Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about George Moore
George Moore -
Write
Quotes
2 Sourced Quotes
View all George Moore Quotes
Source
Report...
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.
George Moore
Source
Report...
The public will accept a masterpiece, but it will not accept an attempt to write a masterpiece.
George Moore
Quote of the day
Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
Cole Porter
George Moore
Creative Commons
Born:
February 24, 1852
Died:
January 21, 1933
(aged 80)
More about George Moore...
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes