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Excerpt from Authorship

And yet, just as you study painting before you can expect to place your ideas in pictorial form, so it is only reasonable that before you can expect to demand the attention of the public through the printed or spoken word, you ought at least to know how to do this. Every particular art has its rules, and yet art generally has certain fundamental rules which are applicable to all. That is why it so often happens that an artist in poetry is an artist in painting. A great actor may be a great musical composer, or a playwright a clever sculptor. Every artist has already in him the essential attributes well developed and ready for his other art; and for him there is far less to be learnt than in the case of the aspirant who has never studied art of any kind, but just walked boldly into writing and been surprised that success was not ready to shake him by the hand at the first effort.

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Excerpt from Authorship

Authorship is an art.

It may also be the means of acquiring wealth, but whatever else it may or may not be, emphatically it is an art; and therefore, within limitations it can be taught. When you come to examine a great piece of literature, a fine novel, a good story, or a convincing play, there is not, as many timid aspirants imagine, some terrible secret first to be unearthed. Of course luck plays its part in writing as in painting or trading or stockbroking: but, granted certain mental and temperamental endowments, there is no reason why there should not be far more and better novels, short stories and plays. Too often a clever, inexperienced writer has failed to attain, simply because of ignorance in technique. He does not know the very essentials of the literary art, and after a long series of failures, he has at last given up the contest and taken up some other career.

It is quite possible that thus a great loss has been incurred to literature.

About the Publisher

Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.