Quotes by : Malcolm Cowley

They were learning that New York had another life, too — subterranean, like almost everything that....

It is the fear of being as dependent as a young child while not being loved as a child is loved but....

The late 1920s were an age of islands, real and metaphorical. They were an age when Americans by thousands....

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

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't....

There would seem to be four stages in the composition of a story. First comes the germ of the story,....

Be kind and considerate with your criticism... It's just as hard to write a bad book as it is to write....

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