Logo
People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still ap

People who rarely read long books, or even short stories, still appreciate the greatest examples of the shortest literary genres. I have long been fascinated by these short genres. They seem to lie just where my heart is, somewhere between literature and philosophy. – Gary Saul Morson, The Long and Short of It: From Aphorism to Novel, 2012

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Quotations
category

If the grain were separated from the chaff which fills the Works of our National Poets, what is truly valuable would be to what is useless in the proportion of a mole-hill to a mountain. – Edmund Burke

Category:
Quotations

There is indeed a strange prejudice against Quotation. – James Boswell, “The Hypochondriack,” No.XXII, 1779

Category:
Quotations

Luminous quotations, also, atone, by their interest, for the dulness of an inferior book, and add to the value of a superior work by the variety which they lend to its style and treatment. – Christian Nestell Bovee, “Quoters and Quoting,” Institutions and Summaries of Th

Category:
Quotations

Quotes are nothing but inspiration for the uninspired. – Attributed to Richard Kemph

Category:
Quotations

Random Quotes

Autumn is the perfect time to take account of what we’ve done, what we didn’t do, and what we’d like to do next year. – Author Unknown

Category:
Autumn

Write in recollection and amazement for yourself. – Jack Kerouac

Category:
amazing

Act as if you have already achieved your goal and it is yours. – Dr. Robert Anthony

Category:
Imagination

There’s nothing to match curling up with a good book when there’s a repair job to be done around the house. – Joe Ryan

Category:
Housework