The Art of Writing

By Stevenson, Robert Louis

Book Id: WPLBN0000678535
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Reproduction Date: 2005

Title:	The Art of Writing
Author:	Stevenson, Robert Louis
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Language:	English
Subject:	Fiction, Literature, Literature & drama
Collections:	Classic Literature Collection, Penn State University's Electronic Classics Series Collection
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Publisher:	Penn State University's Electronic Classics


Citation APA MLA Chicago Louis Stevenson, B. R. (n.d.). The Art of Writing. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Excerpt
Excerpt: There is nothing more disenchanting to man than to be shown the springs and mechanism of any art. All our arts and occupations lie wholly on the surface; it is on the surface that we perceive their beauty, fitness, and significance; and to pry below is to be appalled by their emptiness and shocked by the coarseness of the strings and pulleys.