“In general I do not draw well with literary men / not that I dislike them but I never know what to say to them after I have praised their last publication.”
Lord Byron
“All literary men are Red Sox fans - to be a Yankee fan in a literate society is to endanger your life.”
John Cheever
“Satire lies about literary men while they live and eulogy lies about them when they die.”
Voltaire
“There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write”
Thomas Carlyle
“Our authors and scholars are generally men of business, and make their literary pursuits subservient to their interests.”
Benjamin Rush
“Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world.”
Samuel Johnson
“Literary men are . . . a perpetual priesthood.”
