Maxwell Perkins

Quotes

• “Anybody can find out if he is a writer. If he were a writer when he tried to write of some particular day he would fin...”
• “The amount of meaning you get into a sentence, the dimensions and intensity of the impression you make a paragraph carry...”
• “Whenever any of these new writers come up who are brilliant, I always realize that you have more talent and more skill t...”
• “I think the novel is a wonder....it has vitality to an extraordinary degree, and glamour, and a great deal of underlying...”
• “I believe the writer... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen bo...”
• “Just get it down on paper, and then we’ll see what to do with it.”
• “Just get it down on paper and then we'll see what to do with it.”
• “Every good thing that comes is accompanied by trouble.”
• “You have to throw yourself away when you write.”