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Grace's Cake for Thought
All the Wit That's Fit to Eat
Created on 2002-11-21 19:58:43 (#785914), last updated 2009-06-15
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Basic Info| Name: | "Grace" |
|---|---|
| Birthdate: | 01-27 |
| Location: | Alexandria, Virginia, United States |
| Website: | The Logomachist |
BioI'm an editor who secretly wants to be a best-selling author (and Oscar Wilde's ghost, but I think I'd have to die to do that, right? Or get possessed by his soul and THEN die? Hm...).
That says it all, really.
"It is at once too easy and too difficult to be a popular novelist. It is too easy, because the requirements of the public as far as plot, style, psychology, treatment of life, and treatment of literature are concerned are within the reach of the very meanest capacity and the most uncultivated mind. It is too difficult, because to meet such requirements the artist would have to do violence to his temperament, would have to write not for the artistic joy of writing, but for the amusement of half-educated people, and so would have to suppress his individualism, forget his culture, annihilate his style, and surrender everything that is valuable in him."
-Oscar Wilde
That says it all, really.
"It is at once too easy and too difficult to be a popular novelist. It is too easy, because the requirements of the public as far as plot, style, psychology, treatment of life, and treatment of literature are concerned are within the reach of the very meanest capacity and the most uncultivated mind. It is too difficult, because to meet such requirements the artist would have to do violence to his temperament, would have to write not for the artistic joy of writing, but for the amusement of half-educated people, and so would have to suppress his individualism, forget his culture, annihilate his style, and surrender everything that is valuable in him."
-Oscar Wilde
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Winston Churchill High School - San Antonio, TX (1992 - 1996)Southwest Texas State University - San Marcos, TX (1996 - 2000)
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