Robert Benchley Quote

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other author which happens to be handy and easily adapted.


As quoted in The Routledge Dictionary of Quotations : A Dictionary of Quotations (1987) by Robert Andrews, p. 154


Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other...

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other...

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other...

Great literature must spring from an upheaval in the author's soul. If that upheaval is not present then it must come from the works of any other...