On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my … - Edmund Wilson

Same topic Authors

Quote of the day

I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

Edmund Wilson

On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the other, not to let myself down by publishing inferior material. My poetry comes under the latter head. My only advice to the reader is to skip any verse that he sees coming.

Advice, Emotions, Hands, Ideas, Relevant, Sees

Same Author Quotes

No two persons ever read the same book.

Inspirational, Book, Reading, Same, Persons

In times of disorder and stress, the fanatics play a prominent role; in times of peace, the critics. Both are shot after the revolution.

Critics, Peace, Play, Stress, Truth

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

Book, Read, Same, Sense, Twice

The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.

Art, Cheap, Feed, Ignorance, Taste, Thing

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Adequate, Income, Money, Nothing, Small