Burton Rascoe
Burton Rascoe
Arthur Burton Rascoe, was an American journalist, editor and literary critic of the New York Herald Tribune...
jobs light ideas
American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian , don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves.
stuff bad-stuff
I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing.
attitude men fifteen
I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan.
color people important
A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life - what people are interested in. That's journalism.
girl lonely art
Men and women who are lonely create. Those who are gregarious rarely do... Any poet would rather bed with a girl than write a poem about her. All art is the result of frustration. Art is energy deflected from its normal course in action.
staring wife writer
What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.
writing wife window
What no wife of a writer can ever understand is that a writer is working when he's staring out of the window.