Quotes by Cooley, Charles Horton

The idea that seeing life means going from place to place and doing a >>

There is nothing less to our credit than our neglect of the foreigner >>

It is surely a matter of common observation that a man who knows no on >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

They're fancy talkers about themselves, writers. If I had to give youn >>

Writing is the incurable itch that possesses many. >>

We are all apprentices in a craft where no one ever becomes a master. >>

In most cases a favorite writer is more with us in his book than he ever could have been in the flesh; since, being a writer, he is one who has studied and perfected this particular mode of personal incarnation, very likely to the detriment of any other. I should like as a matter of curiosity to see and hear for a moment the men whose works I admire; but I should hardly expect to find further intercourse particularly profitable.

Cooley, Charles Horton