Henry Seidel Canby Citas

• Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Profesor, Enseñanza, Aprendizaje

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• Leer por experiencia es la única lectura que justifica el entusiasmo. Leer para conocer hechos es necesario, pero cuanto menos se hable de ello en público, mejor. Leer para distraerse es como tomar medicinas. Lo hacemos, pero no es nada de lo que enorgullecerse. Pero leer por experiencia es transformador.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Reading, Medicine, Proud

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

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Pensar

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• Live deep instead of fast.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Inspiración

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• 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

  Stories, Natural, Method

  Henry Seidel Canby (1902). “The Short Story”

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• The short story, its course plotted and its form proscribed, has become too efficient... but efficiency is not the most, it is perhaps the least, important among the undoubted elements of good literature

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Important, Stories, Elements

  Henry Seidel Canby (1922). “Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism”

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

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Tolls, Bells, Hell

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• A short story is simplification to the highest degree

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Degrees, Stories, Short Story

  Henry Seidel Canby (1902). “Yale Studies in English”

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• 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

  Superficial Things, Interesting, Degrees

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

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Writing, Editing, Different

  Henry Seidel Canby (1926). “Better Writing”

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• The London 'Academy' has seen fit recently to scoff at the critics who have been exercising themselves ove rthe so-called art of the Short Story... But the new Short Story has gained more individuality. It supports the magazines and has invaded the newspapers

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Art, Exercise, Support

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