Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.
Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.
All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.
There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.
One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.
Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life.