Writes Quotes by Alfred Kazin

Art changes all the time, but it never "improves." It may go down, or up, but it never improves as technology and medicine improve.

— Alfred Kazin

“Power beyond reason created a lasting irrationality.”

— Alfred Kazin

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

— Alfred Kazin

History has become more important than ever because of the to unprecedented ability of the historical sciences to take in man's life on earth…

— Alfred Kazin

Is it strange, then, that in a literature so concerned with realism and with personal liberation this refusal and impoverishment of the life of…

— Alfred Kazin

A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

— Alfred Kazin

What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his…

— Alfred Kazin

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

The writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratification, is…

— Alfred Kazin

Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.

— Alfred Kazin

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

We never know how much has been missing from our lives until a true writer comes along.

— Alfred Kazin

A year after Hemingway died on the front page, Faulkner went off after a binge, as if dying was nobody's business but his own.

— Alfred Kazin

Walking I am unbound, and find that precious unity of life and imagination, that silent outgoing self, which is so easy to loose, but…

— Alfred Kazin

What happens whenever we convert a writer into a symbol is that we lose the writer himself in all his indefeasible singularity, his particular…

— Alfred Kazin