Fiction Writing Having Artistic Quality

 

When in addition to expressing matters of fact or truth, appealing  perhaps to experience, we wish to arouse some sense of the beautiful and  the artistic, we shall give our writing some or all of the qualities of  the third group. Evidently, writing of this sort is in many respects  the most difficult, since the writer must have regard for unity and the  related principles, as well as for the qualities which peculiarly  distinguish it. Experience, beauty, and truth are all available as  subject-matter, and all the principles governing literary composition  are concerned. Here we shall find the poem, the drama, the oration in  some of its forms, most essays of the better sort, the greater part of  good critical writing, literary description, and all narrative forms  except the matter-of-fact historical writing of unliterary  scholars

Excreted  from Writing of the Short Story by Lewis Worthington Smith (1902)

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