“Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”

“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”

“...art is made by the alone for the alone… The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication...”

“While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.Cyril Connolly (English critic and editor, 1903-1974)”

“Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]”

“When I write after dark the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose.”

“Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.”