Cyril Connolly
English critic and journalist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.
—Cyril Connolly, English critic and journalist, Enemies of Promise, 1938
Posted on December 8, 2003 at 8:57 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
—Cyril Connolly, British writer and journalist, New Statesman, 1933
Posted on July 20, 1998 at 6:46 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
It is only in the country that we can get to know a fellow-being or a book.
—Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Posted on March 18, 2003 at 9:22 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
No one over thirty-five is worth meeting who has not something to teach us—something more than we could learn for ourselves, from a book.
—Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grave
Posted on March 19, 2003 at 10:09 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their lustre.
—Cyril Connolly, English critic and journalist, The Unquiet Grave
Posted on November 22, 2001 at 11:49 AM
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