Caroline Gordon Quotes

A well-composed book is a magic carpet on which we are wafted to a world that we cannot enter in any other way.

As a rule, one must write a great many words before one learns to write well.

We do not judge great art. It judges us.

... passion, once unleashed, has a way of unleashing other passions -- a principle adhered to as firmly by the police force of any large modern city as by the Greek tragedians.

A first book often has enough material in it for half a dozen.

It was strange how you could never form any conclusion from what women said. It was not that they did not know what they were talking about, but you never drew the right conclusions.