Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilson
Edmund Wilsonwas an American writer and critic who notably explored Freudian and Marxian themes. He influenced many American fiction-writers, including Scott Fitzgerald, whose unfinished work he edited for publication. His scheme for a Library of America series of national classic works came to fruition through the efforts of Jason Epstein after his death...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNon-Fiction Author
Date of Birth8 May 1895
CountryUnited States of America
inspirational education learning
Only the curious will learn and only the resolute will overcome the obstacles to learning. The quest quotient has always excited me more than the intelligence quotient.
art ignorance taste
The most immoral and disgraceful and dangerous thing that anybody can do in the arts is knowingly to feed back to the public its own ignorance and cheap tastes.
real europe cities
From the moment a New Yorker is confronted with almost any large city of Europe, it is impossible for him to pretend to himself that his own city is anything other than an unscrupulous real-estate speculation
book
In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
country giving-up hands
A young poet in America should not be advised at the outset to give up all for the Muse-to seclude himself in the country, to live hand from mouth in Greenwich Village or to escape to the Riviera. I should not advise him even to become a magazine editor or work in a publisher's office. The poet would do better to study a profession, to become a banker or a public official or even to go in for the movies.
money adequate income
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
inspirational book reading
No two persons ever read the same book.