Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley
Malcolm Cowley was an American novelist, poet, literary critic, and journalist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth24 August 1898
CountryUnited States of America
american-critic attempts equivalent
It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
writing simple elements
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
writing men doe
In matters like writing and painting, a man does what he has to do - if he has to write, why then, he writes; and if he doesn't feel the urgent need of writing, there are dozens of professions in which it is easier to earn a comfortable living.
book writing criticism
Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write a good book.
writing successful people
Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
long age different
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down
years woods brooks
Going back to Hemingway's work after several years is like going back to a brook where you had often fished and finding the woods as deep and cool as they used to be.
children alive young
It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child, while not being loved as a child is loved, but merely being kept alive against one's will.
kind sometimes kitten
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens