Cyril Connolly Literature Quotations

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once.

When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types.

Classical and romantic: private language of a family quarrel, a dead dispute over the distribution of emphasis between man and nature.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control.

Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be grasped at once

Nothing dates like hate and in literature a little of it goes a very long way.

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

While thought exists, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living