Quotes by Smith, Sydney

Among the smaller duties of life I hardly know any one more important >>

To love and be loved is the great happiness of existence. >>

All this class of pleasures inspires me with the same nausea as I feel >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Great writers are the saints for the godless. >>

Essential characteristic of the really great novelist: a Christ-like, >>

Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are wor >>

The writer does the most good who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Smith, Sydney