Laurence Sterne Quote

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his probation in it, precisely that of any other man militant upon earth,--both depending alike, not half so much upon the degrees of his WIT--as his RESISTANCE.


The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy (ed. 1792)


So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his...

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his...

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his...

So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition, as a state of warfare; and his...