Quotes by Hampton, Christopher

I have always thought of sophistication as rather a feeble substitute >>

Asking a working writer what he thinks about critics is like asking a >>

To seduce a woman famous for strict morals, religious fervor and the h >>

Quotations about Literature

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of pay >>

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary la >>

Literature flourishes best when it is half trade and half an art. >>

A great number of the disappointments and mishaps of the troubled world are the direct result of literature and the allied arts. It is our belief that no human being who devotes his life and energy to the manufacture of fantasies can be anything but fundamentally inadequate

Hampton, Christopher