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

—Cyril Connolly

About Cyril Connolly

Portrait of Cyril Connolly

Cyril Vernon Connolly (10 September 1903 – 26 November 1974) was an English literary critic and writer. He was the editor of the influential literary magazine Horizon (1940–49) and wrote Enemies of Promise (1938), which combined literary criticism with an autobiographical exploration of why he failed to become the successful...

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All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.

—Cyril Connolly

We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.

—Cyril Connolly

Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.

—Cyril Connolly

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

—Cyril Connolly

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Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

—Cyril Connolly

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Trying to be a first-rate reporter on the average American newspaper is like trying to play Bach's 'St. Matthew's Passion' on a ukulele.

—Bagdikian's Observation

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worthwhile. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.

—Aleister Crowley

However fashionable despair about the world and about people may be at present, and however powerful despair may become in the future, not everybody, or even most people, thinks and lives fashionably; virtue and honor will not be banished from the world, however many popular moralists and panicky journalists say so. Sacrifice will not cease to be because psychiatrists have popularized the idea that there is often some concealed self-serving element in it; theologians always knew that. Nor do I think love as a high condition of honor will be lost; it is a pattern in the spirit, and people long to make the pattern a reality in their own lives, whatever means they take to do so.

—Robertson Davies

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Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.

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Every journalist has a novel in him, which is an excellent place for it.

—Russel Lynes

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