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profkrg: "Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - Cyril Connolly
Elle_Dorado: Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self. -Cyril Connolly
iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
AsahDiri: Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.-Cyril Connolly-
tonyfasousa: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
usmantm: Highly recommend Cyril Connolly’s ENEMIES OF PROMISE — a book Chip Delany rec to me abt books that last, art that survives.
Somtimes a work lasts bc of cult advocates; sometimes nothing does.
All u can do is ‘give voice to ur own astonishment’ (Dillard c/o Ted Chiang).
contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
DavidCollard1: Cyril Connolly: 'There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.'
Random Scotsman:
AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
DaveAndersonBS: Cyril Connolly wrote, “There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.” Makes a nice change from laziness and crap ideas.
TrueQuotation: Love is never defeated, and I could add, the history of Ireland proves it. — Cyril Connolly
HectorLuisAlamo: “When suffering from social envy of other writers there is only one cure — to work. Whatever consideration they are enjoying may then come your way and in any case by working you are doing what they would most envy you.”
— Cyril Connolly
_regaining: I hate (but what I mean is 'love') that this book is like a magnet for other authors I want to read. Elizabeth Hardwick, Joan Didion, Cyril Connolly...I want to believe in the afterlife, if only to extend one's to-read pile.
Guru_Million: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
MotivationalUi: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
womenwelove: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
welfordwrites: Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice; journalism what will be read once. Cyril Connolly
iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
Franabouttown: Who the banjenkins is doing Morning Pages with a four year old and kitten? (Said Cyril Connolly)
AsahDiri: Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.-Cyril Connolly-
KungFuShoesSays: "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you." Cyril Connolly
contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
MeritzPress: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -Cyril Connolly
jjrwass: Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Cyril Connolly
(1903 - 1974)
angatia94283562: A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.,Cyril Connolly,writers-on-writing,
AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
ReginaNjue5: The secret of happiness ... is to be in harmony with existence to be always calm always lucid always willing to be joined to the universe without being more conscious of it than an idiot to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.,Cyril Connolly,happiness,
SaidDir05399842: Happiness lies in the fulfillment of the spirit through the body.,Cyril Connolly,happiness,
herrytearjerky: Cyril Connolly
AncientWisdomHQ: "Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you."
- Cyril Connolly
thebobbieoliver: “Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self.”
-Cyril Connolly
fraskyfizzle: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
bourne_2_learn: "Our memories are card indexes consulted and then returned in disorder by authorities whom we do not control." [Cyril Connolly]
InspiredUs: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
billbert: Cyril Connolly?
Entertaining thread below re: a charming song from Mr Idle.
AsahDiri: Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.-Cyril Connolly-
luvisss_: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
raineartistic: When young we are faithful to individuals, when older we grow loyal to situations and to types. ~ Cyril Connolly
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rgtrendsetter: This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives.
-Cyril Connolly
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rgtrendsetter: Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
-Cyril Connolly
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FictionTweetter: Cyril Connolly on George Orwell: "He would not blow his nose without moralizing on the handkerchief industry."
AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
savwa_saimon: Like water, we are truest to our nature in repose.,Cyril Connolly,Water, Like, Truest ,
KomlaGN58338673: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self., February 25, 1933],Cyril Connolly,faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing,
Feikand27038281: A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion for the instinctual tribes must be satisfied.,Cyril Connolly,reason,
kangaim51631096: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no ,Cyril Connolly,faithfulness, popularity, populism, principles, standards, writing,
hulsey_ryan: "Cyril Connolly?" "No, semi-carnally."
womenwelove: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
MotivationalUi: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
Guru_Million: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
AsahDiri: Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.-Cyril Connolly-
AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
TheTLS: 'The Unquiet Grave begins with a sentence from which it cannot recover.'
marioricciard18: Ah, Cyril Connolly...
iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
modernletters: 'The angriest are the most frightened.'
—Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
DanielDVince: was “also an ‘existentialist’”, bluntly responded ‘No’. Cyril Connolly’s introduction agrees that it is a ‘grave misconception’.
kale26j: Selected Works Of Cyril Connolly, Vol 1: The Modern Movement NMXX4ET
InspiredUs: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
KungFuShoesSays: "Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising." Cyril Connolly
MrAustinn: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
VishweshMasurk: "Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising."
-Cyril Connolly
AncientWisdomHQ: "Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising."
- Cyril Connolly
Thouotes: "Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising." — Cyril Connolly
homesmiamibeach: Cyril Connolly
evil_spectre: Cyril Connolly: "Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising."
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jjrwass: Those whom the Gods would destroy, they first call promising.
Cyril Connolly, Enemies of Promise (1938)
(1903 - 1974)
AsahDiri: Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.-Cyril Connolly-
contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
luvisss_: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
denser27: Peace... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.
Cyril Connolly
AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
TheQuoteFirst: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
fadfield: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
lifesty05568175: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
bbook4123: 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. —Cyril Connolly
iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
JeffCagwin: “All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.” Cyril Connolly
MotivationalUi: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
womenwelove: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
AsahDiri: Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we have learnt to walk.-Cyril Connolly-
nny_ynnl: “There are many who dare not kill themselves for fear of what the neighbors will say.” – Cyril Connolly
tonyfasousa: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
BizMarketplace: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
mkimdorman: from Cyril Connolly,
The Unquiet Grave
mkimdorman: A shelfy Coast,
Long infamous for Ships, and Sailors lost;
And white with bones.
-Dryden’s Virgil
(epigraph for Palinurus:
The Unquiet Grave by
Cyril Connolly)
MeritzPress: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -Cyril Connolly
JMDReid: “Literature is the art of writing something that will be read twice.”
--Cyril Connolly
thejessieraine: "Better to write for yourself and have no public than to write for the public and have no self." - Cyril Connolly
contentmo: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
instaroids: BETTER TO WRITE FOR YOURSELF AND HAVE NO PUBLIC, THAN TO WRITE FOR THE PUBLIC AND HAVE NO SELF. – CYRIL CONNOLLY
AllOnFire: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
MrAustinn: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
iMoGalore: Writers Inspirational Quotes
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
- Cyril Connolly
InspiredUs: Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. ~Cyril Connolly
RabbiWolpe: Why are 2nd novels so often disappointing? Here is what Cyril Connolly wrote about Kingsley Amis’ novel after his hit “Lucky Jim”: “Literary success liberates the tension generated by a hostile environment by removing the environment and so prepares the way for literary failure.”
