“A book , once it is printed and published, becomes individual. It is by its publication as decisively severed from its author as in parturition a child is cut off from its parent. The book "means" thereafter, perforce, both grammatically and actually, whatever meaning this or that reader gets out of it.” MeanChildrenBookIndividualParentCuttingReaderPrintedPublication Book:The Works of James Branch Cabell: Towsend of Lichfield Source: The Works of James Branch Cabell: Towsend of Lichfield
“American literature was enriched with Men Who Loved Allison .... Of the actual and eventual worth of this romance I cannot pretend to be an unprejudiced judge. The tale seems to me one of those many books which have profited, very dubiously indeed, by having obtained, in one way of another, the repute of being indecent.” MenWayBookSeemsRomanceLiteratureJudgingTalesOne WayAmerican LiteratureAllison Book:Preface to the Past Source: Preface to the Past
“I was born, I think, with the desire to make beautiful books — brave books that would preserve the glories of the Dream untarnished, and would re-create them for battered people, and re-awaken joy and magnanimity.” PeopleThinkingBookDreamBeautifulJoyDesireBornGloryBravePreservesBatteredMagnanimityBeautiful Books Book:The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection Source: The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection
