Home Subjects Archives Quotations Forums
 Top 100 •  The Book •  Contact A Web site by Paul McFedries   

Anthony Trollope
English novelist
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I finished on Thursday the novel I was writing, and on Friday I began another. Nothing really frightens me but the idea of enforced idleness. As long as I can write books even though they be not published, I think I can be happy.
—Anthony Trollope, English novelist, letter, 1880

Posted on March 21, 2000 at 11:44 AM

WORDS ABOUT WORDS

The satirist who writes nothing but satire should write but little- or it will seem that his satire springs rather from his own caustic nature than from the sins of the world in which he lives.
—Anthony Trollope, English novelist, Autobiography, 1883

Posted on June 29, 2001 at 9:49 PM

 Words About Words:
Quotations Index

Author Index

 Recent posts:
  returnment
  tipping element
  "mug me" earphones
  renoviction
  philanthrocapitalism
  reverse Bradley effect
  silent run
  myco-diesel
  punditariat
  liquor-cycle
 Select an archive:
  A B C D E F G H I
  J K L M N O P Q R
  S T U V W X Y Z #
 Other links:
Word Spy Citations

My Favorite Words

My Neologisms

 Search Word Spy:

Enter your search text:

 Subscribe to Word Spy:
Get Word Spy by RSS


Get Word Spy by email:


Powered by FeedBlitz



Word Spy on Twitter
 Lingua Techna Posts:



Copyright © 1995 - 2012 Paul McFedries and Logophilia Limited