Malcolm Cowley Quotes
- Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
- Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down
- Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens
- The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
- First New York was a sort of provincial capital, bigger and richer than Manchester or Marseilles, but not much different in its essential spirit. Then,…
- Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
- They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
- A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in…
- Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant…
- It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.