“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for what has not hitherto been put in story form, criticism that mingles a search for new truth with… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again. — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for what has… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
“Good writing is always a breaking of the soil, clearing away prejudices, pulling up of sour weeds of crooked thinking, stripping the turf so… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the… — Henry Seidel Canby Copy Share Image
