Quotes from Sylvan Barnet

Man is mortal. This is his fate. Man pretends not to be mortal. That is his sin. Man is a creature of time and place, whose perspectives and insights are invariably conditioned by his immediate circumstances.

Something is wrong with a sentence when you can delete words and not sense the loss.

Outlining, in short, is not merely a way of organizing ideas but is also a way of getting ideas.

Because most artists have not told us of their intentions, and beacause those artists ( and patrons or agents) who have stated their intentions may not be fully reliable sources, and because we inevitably see things from our own points of view, think twice before you attribute intention to the artist [...].