Creative Quotations from . . .
Alfred Kazin
(1915-1998) born on Jun 05
US "critic, teacher, editor". "He is best known for "On Native Grounds," 1942 and "The Inmost Leaf," 1955."
 
   
F
A classic is a book that survives the circumstances that made it possible yet alone keeps those circumstances alive.

R
"One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds."
A
"When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair."
N
"If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years."
K
"In a very real sense, the writer writes in order to teach himself, to understand himself, to satisfy himself; the publishing of his ideas, though it brings gratifications, is a curious anticlimax."


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
R: "Quoted in Marc Patcher ed "Telling Lives: The Biographer's Art," New Republic Books 79"
A: "San Francisco "Examiner & Chronicle," 16 Jul 78"
N: Quoted by US Secretary of Education William J Bennett in address to National Press Club 27 Mar 85
K: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."



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