Literary Men Quotes

Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.

One would think that in writing about literary men and matters there would be no difficulty in finding a title for one's essay, or that any embarrassment which might arise would be from excess of material. I find this, however, far from being the case.

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that he had never read a book by Ruskin but that the study confirmed him in his belief that he didn't want to read a book by Ruskin. This man very often writes about his family life.

Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.

Meek young men grow up in libraries.

I have never been greatly enamored of literary men in general, and in particular I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that they are a class of individuals with the most dangerous biases and hidden motives.

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.

I promise myself great pleasure from my visit to England. You know I am to stay with Dickens while in London; and beside his own very agreeable society, I shall enjoy that of the most noted literary men of the day, which will be a great gratification to me.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.