Quotes by Malcolm Cowley

“No complete son of a bitch ever wrote a good sentence.”

“They were learning that New York had another life, too subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses af...”

“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.”

“There would seem to be four stages in the composition of a story. First comes the germ of the story, then a period of more or less conscious meditation, then the first draft, and finally the revisi...”

“The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands and tens of thousands were scheming to take the next boat for the South Seas or the West I...”

“They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.”

“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.”

“...but you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.”

“They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that was human in the city — a life of writers meeting in restaurants at lunchtime or in coffee houses ...”

“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.”