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
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