Burton Rascoe
Burton Rascoe
Arthur Burton Rascoe, was an American journalist, editor and literary critic of the New York Herald Tribune.
"American literature has been, and is, singularly deficient in established critics who have anything like a rational conception of their jobs. The majority, initiate in a few of the patent rituals of Aristotle and Quintilian, don the forbidding robes of high priests to Sweetness and Light, and go about their business much as if the idea were to keep all they know to themselves."
"I felt exactly like the man in the advertisement who has not devoted fifteen minutes a day to the study of the classics. If only (I thought) I had devoted fifteen minutes a day to the cultivation of the aesthetic attitude! I could bound Afghanistan."
"A news sense is really a sense of what is important, what is vital, what has color and life — what people are interested in. Thats journalism."
"What no wife of a writer can ever understand, no matter if she lives with him for twenty years, is that a writer is working when hes staring out the window."
"I am so constituted that I had rather read bad stuff than nothing."
