Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Stephen Crane (American Writer)

Stephen Crane (1871–1900) was an American novelist, poet, and short-story writer celebrated for his great American war novel, The Red Badge of Courage (1895.) Throughout his abbreviated life, he wrote notable works in the Realist tradition and early examples of American Naturalism and Impressionism.

Born in Newark, New Jersey, Crane failed out of college. He worked as a journalist in New York before publishing his first novel, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893.) Booksellers would not stock it because it was too realistic and disheartening, and he gave away a hundred copies and burned the rest.

Crane’s prominence rests on his novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895,) a study of an inexperienced soldier in the American Civil War. It was hailed as a masterwork of psychological realism, even though Crane had no personal experience of war.

Crane never repeated The Red Badge of Courage’s success, but he was lionized by literary London (he was befriended by Joseph Conrad and met H. G. Wells.) Crane wrote the short stories “The Open Boat,” “The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky,” and “The Blue Hotel.” He succumbed to tuberculosis in Baden-Baden, Germany.

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Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.
Stephen Crane

It was not well to drive men into final corners; at those moments they could all develop teeth and claws.
Stephen Crane

A singular disadvantage of the sea lies in the fact that after successfully surmounting one wave you discover that there is another behind it just as important and just as nervously anxious to do something effective in the way of swamping boats.
Stephen Crane

A serious prophet upon predicting a flood should be the first man to climb a tree. This would demonstrate that he was indeed a seer.
Stephen Crane

When it occurs to a man that nature does not regard him as important, and that she feels she would not maim the universe by disposing of him, he at first wishes to throw bricks at the temple, and he hates deeply the fact that there are no bricks and no temples.
Stephen Crane

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