Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by Glenway Wescott

Explore popular quotes and sayings by an American novelist Glenway Wescott.

Last updated on November 21, 2024.

Glenway Wescott was an American poet, novelist and essayist. A figure of the American expatriate literary community in Paris during the 1920s, Wescott was openly gay. His relationship with longtime companion Monroe Wheeler lasted from 1919 until Wescott's death.

American - Novelist | April 11, 1901 - February 22, 1987

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There must always be some pretentiousness about literature, or else no one would take its pains or endure its disappointments.

Glenway Wescott

It is not love, but lack of love which is blind.

Glenway Wescott

New York City is a great apartment hotel in which everyone lives and no one is at home.

Glenway Wescott

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

Glenway Wescott

Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain not to work, not to glow, not to strike home.

Glenway Wescott

People as a rule do mean much more than they understand.

Glenway Wescott

But let us laugh carelessly like other men. Let us be timid even among fools. Let us knot silence around our throats. For they would surely kill us.

Glenway Wescott