George Woodcock Quotes

If we try to envisage an 'average Canadian writer' we can see him living near a campus teaching at least part-time at university level mingling too much for his work's good with academics doing as much writing as he can for the CBC and always hoping for a Canada Council Fellowship.

George Woodcock

If we can find out why the idea rather than the nation of Canada can win a growing loyalty rather than commanding it then it seems to me we shall have come very near to trapping the elusive creature the Canadian Identity.

George Woodcock

It is not in life but in art that self-fulfillment is to be found.

George Woodcock

Pioneers did not produce original works of art because they were creating original human environments they did not imagine Utopias because they were shaping them.

George Woodcock