I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike it. I do it and I am always resolving to give it up.


Cyril Connolly: journal and memoir (ed. HarperCollins, 1983) - ISBN: 9780002165464

Cyril Connolly Quotes

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed...

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed...

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed...

I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed...