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Cyril Connolly Quotes

A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out.

Cyril Connolly

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: journalist
Nationality: english
Birth: September 10, 1903 - November 26, 1974

Topics

Live Great Moment World Proud Will

I'm finding things out about myself as a person - as a writer - as I write, and so are the people who listen to what I do. But they have this additional aspect of how they take the stuff that I do, and so it broadens the work, and it creates this strange connection.

John Darnielle

Work Myself People Finding Person

New York's like a boxing match. In Hollywood, it's like a Fellini movie or something.

John Cusack

New Boxing Hollywood Something Like

I think theatre must be an event, an experience, not compete with cinema. When people are able to download stories on Netflix, you need to give them a good reason to jump into the car and drive two hours. It has to be something you can only see in the theatre, and it has to be worth it.

Robert Lepage

Good Car Experience People Theatre

A poet in history is divine, but a poet in the next room is a joke.

Max Eastman

History Next Joke Room Divine Poet

I felt like I was betraying my family. But I knew that trying to explain my emotions in a movie like this was more important than leaving them unspoken.

John Robinson

Family Trying Emotions Important

Songwriting isn't always something that's directly proportionate to the experience.

Amos Lee

Experience Songwriting Always

There was one vampire movie that Gerard Butler was in, 'Dracula 2000,' and they touched on something interesting, but it only worked in the context of that particular movie, which was that the original vampire was Judas.

Amy Heckerling

Interesting Vampire Context Something

Now I am discovering the world once more. England has widened my horizon.

Stefan Zweig

I Am World Horizon Now More Once

I love Korean rice and Korean food in general. Korean barbecues are cool - there's a table with a hole in it with fire coming through, and we throw meat on it.

Son Heung-min

Love Food Fire Cool Table Meat

There is a fine line between censorship and good taste and moral responsibility.

Steven Spielberg

Good Responsibility Moral Censorship

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

Ronald Reagan

Justice Peace People World Free Own

People get recruited from sketch groups and put on 'Mad TV' and 'SNL,' but those aren't ensembles, they're all-star teams.

Matt Besser

People Mad Sketch Get TV All-Star