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 CowleyPut 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 CowleyAuthors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens
Malcolm CowleyIn 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