Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can...

Quote by John Dos Passos about invention, originality, writers, writing, word, world, time

Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.

John Dos Passos
Quote by John Dos Passos about invention, originality, writers, writing, word, world, time.
John Dos Passos

John Dos Passos 1896 - 1970, american novelist

Was born on: 14 jan 1896.
Died on 28 sep 1970, at 74 years old.
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