Top 22 Malcolm Cowley Quotes
#1. All my editors since Malcolm Cowley have had instructions to leave my prose exactly as I wrote it. In the days of Malcolm Cowley, with 'On the Road' and 'The Dharma Bums', I had no power to stand by my style for better or for worse.
Jack Kerouac
#2. The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
Malcolm Cowley
#4. It would have been the equivalent of Jackson Pollock's attempts to copy the Sistine Chapel.
Malcolm Cowley
#5. No complete son of a bitch ever wrote a good sentence.
Malcolm Cowley
#6. 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.
Malcolm Cowley
#7. 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.
Malcolm Cowley
#8. Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens.
Malcolm Cowley
#9. Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down.
Malcolm Cowley
#10. I never cease to be amazed why some of my friends became famous and others, just as talented, didn't. I've come to suspect it's a matter of wanting fame or not, and those who don't want it, don't get it.
Malcolm Cowley
#11. After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.
Iain Banks
#12. 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.
Malcolm Cowley
#13. 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.
Malcolm Cowley
#14. Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
Malcolm Cowley
#15. 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.
Malcolm Cowley
#16. Put cotton in your ears and pebbles in your shoes. Pull on rubber gloves. Smear Vaseline over your glasses, and there you have it: instant old age.
Malcolm Cowley
#17. I know I've got loads that has never been tapped.
Rosamund Pike
#18. Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Malcolm Cowley
#19. Any fiction should be a story. In any story there are three elements: persons, a situation, and the fact that in the end something has changed. If nothing has changed, it isn't a story.
Malcolm Cowley
#20. But you drank your black coffee by choice, believeng that Paris was sufficient alcohol.
Malcolm Cowley
#21. A man who could do with doing things that will last forever and ever should do things right in this day and age.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#22. There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.
Sue Miller
