Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again. — 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 as to get at what is fertile beneath. It would be amusing to carry the simile… — 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
