Possess Genius Quotes by Malcolm Cowley

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Malcolm Cowley has 12 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

• 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…
• Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a…
• 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…
• A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a…
• Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you…
• It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.

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