Caroline Gordon
Caroline Gordon
Caroline Ferguson Gordonwas a notable American novelist and literary critic who, while still in her thirties, was the recipient of two prestigious literary awards, a 1932 Guggenheim Fellowship and a 1934 O. Henry Award...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth6 October 1895
CountryUnited States of America
passion cities greek
... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.
talking strange said
It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.
book dozen firsts
A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.
art umpires judging
We do not judge great art. It judges us.
irrelevance shadow age
There are other great writers who are not read properly in their own day for the reason, perhaps, that their readers are not yet born. What they have to say to their own generation is said so at cross-purposes and with such apparent irrelevance that it is not understood. They are, as it were, giants who tower above their own age to cast their shadows across the next.
writing great-men wells
As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.
book magic world
A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.