Van Wyck Brooks Quotes:
Ocupation: Literary critic
Life: February 16, 1886 - May 2, 1963
Birthday: February 16
Death: May 2
No one is fit to judge a book until he has rounded Cape Horn in a sailing vessel, until he has bumped into two or three icebergs, until he has been lost in the sands of the desert, until he has spent a few years in the House of the Dead.
source: Van Wyck Brooks (1958). “From a writer's notebook”
topic: Book, Years, Two, Sailing And Love
