Laura Riding Quote

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to express themselves. All literature is written by mentally precocious adolescents and by mentally precocious senescents.


"All Literature", from Anarchism Is Not Enough (London: Jonathan Cape, 1928)


All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to...

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to...

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to...

All literature is written by the old to teach the young how to express themselves so that they in turn may write literature to teach the old how to...