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.
Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures. - Malcolm Cowley
Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.
- Malcolm Cowley
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down - Malcolm Cowley
Age is not different from earlier life as long as you're sitting down
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood. - Malcolm Cowley
The germ of a story is a new and simple element introduced into an existing situation or mood.
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 f… - Malcolm Cowley
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 f…
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
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.
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
A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire… - Malcolm Cowley
A man rising in the world is not concerned with history; he is too busy making it. But a citizen with a fixed place in the community wants to acquire…
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you. - Malcolm Cowley
Talent is what you possess; genius is what possesses you.
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens - Malcolm Cowley
Authors are sometimes like tomcats: They distrust all the other toms but they are kind to kittens
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