| "From my close observation of writers...they fall into two groups 1) those who bleed copiously and visibly at any bad review, and 2) those who bleed copiously and secretly at any bad review." »Isaac Asimov |
| "One cannot review a bad book without showing off." »W. H. Auden |
| "Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world." »Samuel Johnson |
| "When we blindly adopt a religion, a political system, a literary dogma, we become automatons. We cease to grow." »Anais Nin |
| "As in political so in literary action a man wins friends for himself mostly by the passion of his prejudices and the consistent narrowness of his outlook." »Joseph Conrad |
| "I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike-and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two-are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats. And that being the case, any human being, male or female, of whatever status, who has a voice of her or his own, is not going to be liked." »Harold Bloom |
| "Humor is, I think, the subtlest and chanciest of literary forms. It is surely not accidental that there are a thousand novelists, essayists, poets or journalists for each humorist. It is a long, long time between James Thurbers." »Leo C. Rosten |
| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |
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