Carl Clinton Van Doren famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Writing #Harder
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 stigma, for the most part, from the word novel.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Adventure #Literature #Funny Travel
The race of man, while sheep in credulity, are wolves for conformity.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Men #Sheep #Race
The two most common charges against the older fiction, that it pleased wickedly and that it taught nothing, had broken down before the discovery, except in illiberal sects, that the novel is fitted both for honest use and for pleasure.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Discovery #Two #Broken
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

#Government #Law #World
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 and a fiendish bandit.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Rivers #Law #Guy
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 through its serial stage, and yet the limits of his life mark almost exactly the first great period of American fiction.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Uncles #Years #Limits
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Running #Long #Firsts
Familiar life, tending to sordidness, had been succeeded by remote life, generally idealized; historical detail had been brought in to teach readers who were being entertained.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Historical #Details #Teach
The most familiar quotations are the most likely to be misquoted. Some misquotations are still variable, some have settled down to false versions that have obscured the true ones. They have passed over from literature into speech.
-- Carl Clinton Van Doren

#Literature #Variables #Speech

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