On the one hand, I have wanted to supply documentation on myself by including material relevant to my emotions and ideas in my youth; and, on the oth…

- Edmund Wilson

I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.

- Edmund Wilson

If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

- Edmund Wilson

No two persons ever read the same book.

- Edmund Wilson

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange…

- Edmund Wilson

His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.

- Edmund Wilson

In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.

- Edmund Wilson

The only thing that we can really make is our work, and deliberate work of the mind, imagination and hand, done, as Nietzsche said, ‘notwithstanding,…

- Edmund Wilson

If I could only remember that the days were not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and pea…

- Edmund Wilson