Beyond the horizon, or even the knowledge, of the cities along the coast, a great, creative impulse is at work -- the only thing, after all, that giv…

- Vance Palmer

It is the business of thought to define things, to find the boundaries; thought, indeed, is a ceaseless process of definition. It is the business of …

- Vance Palmer

The voice of America has no undertones or overtones in it. It repeats its optimistic catchwords in a tireless monologue that has the slightly metalli…

- Vance Palmer

The truth is that literature, particularly fiction, is not the pure medium we sometimes assume it to be. Response to it is affected by things other t…

- Vance Palmer