Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers …

- Carl Clinton Van Doren

Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia an…

- Carl Clinton Van Doren

Although by 1851 tales of adventure had begun to seem antiquated, they had rendered a large service to the course of literature: they had removed the…

- Carl Clinton Van Doren

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.

- Carl Clinton Van Doren

IT is mere coincidence that Cooper was born in the year which produced The Power of Sympathy and that when he died Uncle Tom's Cabin was passing thro…

- Carl Clinton Van Doren

The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions tha…

- Carl Clinton Van Doren

It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it.

- Carl Clinton Van Doren

The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.

- Carl Clinton Van Doren

The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.

- Carl Clinton Van Doren