Of all public figures and benefactors of mankind, no one is loved by history more than the literary patron. Napoleon was just a general of forgotten battles compared with the queen who paid for Shakespeare's meals and beer in the tavern. The statesma...
Free men are the strongest men.
Men and women are created by God. Men need women, women need men. Appreciate masculine and feminine qualities.
Young men speak about the future because they have no past, and old men speak of the past because they have no future.
Zeal is fit only for wise men but is found mostly in fools.
Just as tall trees are known by their shadows, so are good men known by their enemies.
What a fool can spoil, ten wise men cannot repair.
I hate to generalize, but in general, both men and women suffer from ageism. Men much less because men gain power as they get older. Women lose power as they get older. Men are seen as gaining experience and being distinguished. Sons look forward to ...
When men evaluate each other as men, they still look for the same virtues that they’d need to keep the perimeter. Men respond to and admire the qualities that would make men useful and dependable in an emergency. Men have always had a role apart, a...
The secret of wealth is that workers are systematically underpaid.
I've always felt that good writing does not have to be literary.
Anyone aspiring to literary greatness should read 'New Grub Street' and weep.
Carry out your literary dream, no matter how unlikely it may seem...
After university, I got a job sub-editing and for years I was a literary editor.
There is an incompatibility between literary creation and political activity.
People used to expect literary novels to deepen the experience of living; now they are happy with any sustained display of writerly cleverness.
I grew up in a literary home and majored in French, English, and sociology. They all have served me well over the years.
Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.
My dad's got a brilliant eye for scripts 'cos he's a literary agent. He and my agent read a load of scripts and filter them.
I am, of course, greatly honoured to win the Booker, which is one of the great literary prizes in the world.
I had learned of Gertrude Stein's bon mot that medicine opened all doors. This prompted me, in different moods, to view my future life as literary psychiatrist, globe-trotting tropical disease specialist, or academic internist.
