149 Quotes by Logan Pearsall Smith

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

The notion of making money by popular work, and then retiring to do good work, is the most familiar of all the devil's traps for artists.

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmaresif there seemed any danger of their coming true!

The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection, even though it consists in nothing more than in the pounding of an old piano, is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.

What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent

The vitality of a new movement in Art must be gauged by the fury it arouses.

It is a matter of life and death for married people to interrupt each others stories; for it they did not, they would burst.