"No man should ever publish a book until……" — Van Wyck Brooks

"No man should ever publish a book until he has first read it to a woman."

— Van Wyck Brooks

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22 Quotes by Van Wyck Brooks

Van Wyck Brooks has 22 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Magnanimous people have no vanity, they have no jealousy, and they feed on the true and the solid wherever they…
People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
The writer is important only by dint of the territory he colonizes.
As against having beautiful workshops, studies, etc., one writes best in a cellar on a rainy day.
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he…
Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is…
Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.
The man who has the courage of his platitudes is always a successful man.
How delightful is the company of generous people, who overlook trifles and keep their minds instinctively fixed on whatever is…
Earnest people are often people who habitually look on the serious side of things that have no serious side.
The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me, by…
The creative impulses of man are always at war with the possessive impulses.

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I'm not a comic book guy at all. — Darren Aronofsky
I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is… — Isaac Asimov
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
The question is, are we happy to suppose that our grandchildren may never be able to see an elephant except… — David Attenborough
I have a big following among the biogeeks of this world. Nobody ever puts them in books. — Margaret Atwood
Once you publish a book, it is out of your control. You cannot dictate how people read it. — Margaret Atwood
Writers and books are cheap dates, especially when you compare the cost of a book with a ticket to the… — Margaret Atwood
Our generation in the west was lucky: we had readymade gateways. We had books, paper, teachers, schools and libraries. But… — Margaret Atwood

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