"The first writers are first and the rest,……" — Carl Clinton Van Doren
"The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies."
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12 Quotes by Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course…
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The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
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The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken…
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It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without…
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Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale…
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IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when…
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Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to…
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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In fiction, too, after the death of Cooper the main tendency for nearly a generation was away from the conquest…
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Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject,…
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The region west of the Mississippi continued in the popular mind to be a strange land for which the reports…
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More Anthologies Quotes
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one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Editors of open anthologies actively seek submissions from all comers, established and unknown. They are willing to read whatever the…
— Lynn Abbey
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I am also working on a couple of short stories for anthologies. This is new to me and Im enjoying…
— Judith Guest
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Not everything that can be extracted appears in anthologies of quotations, in commonplace books, or on the back of Celestial…
— Gary Saul Morson
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Anatole France frankly advised, "When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy…
— Gary Saul Morson
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Now, to read poetry at all is to have an ideal anthology of one's own, and in that possession to…
— William Ernest Henley
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I think there are just a million interviews in anthologies with famous musicians that are about the music, and they're…
— Neil Strauss
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However, poetry does not live solely in books or in school anthologies.
— Eugenio Montale
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Cross-pollination and "contamination" is really important to the health of fiction, and sometimes it's a literal conversation, too, in that…
— Jeff VanderMeer
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As long as mixed grills and combination salads are popular, anthologies will undoubtedly continue in favor.
— Elizabeth Janeway
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Since I'm a fan of collections and anthologies, believe that the best writing often shines in shards and galloping stretches,…
— James Wolcott
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Here's what I want from a book, what I demand, what I pray for when I take up a novel…
— Pat Conroy
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I tended to be drawn to the weirder, darker stuff. Horror and sci-fi anthologies.
— Karen Russell
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