Quotes by Connolly, Cyril

Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in >>

Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear. >>

All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dep >>

Quotations about Writers and Writing

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who a >>

Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and ste >>

I write in order to attain that feeling of tension relieved and functi >>

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

Connolly, Cyril