8 Quotes by Henry Seidel Canby

Live deep instead of fast.

-Henry Seidel Canby

A short story is simplification to the highest degree.

-Henry Seidel Canby

Live deep instead of fast. I think this is what Thoreau meant.

-Henry Seidel Canby

  • Author Henry Seidel Canby
  • Quote

    Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.

  • Share

Reading for experience is the only reading that justifies excitement. Reading for facts is necessary bu the less said about it in public the better. Reading for distraction is like taking medicine. We do it, but it is nothing to be proud of. But reading for experience is transforming.

-Henry Seidel Canby

If the bell of intolerance tolls for one, it tolls for all.

-Henry Seidel Canby

  • Author Henry Seidel Canby
  • Quote

    Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

  • Share

Flatulency today consists in saying simply in several different ways the same thing over and over again.

-Henry Seidel Canby

  • Author Henry Seidel Canby
  • Quote

    While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one.

  • Share

While the novel-writer aims at an eminently natural method of transcription, the author of the short story adopts a very artificial one.

-Henry Seidel Canby

  • Author Henry Seidel Canby
  • Quote

    The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing.

  • Share

The function of the Short Story is to be interesting, to convey vivid impressions, an therefore it must, to a degree, work with the evident and superficial thing.

-Henry Seidel Canby

 

1 pages8 quotes