“I review novels to make money, because it is easier for a sluggard to write an article a fortnight than a book a year, because the writer is soothed by the opiate of action, the crank by posing as a good journalist, and having an air hole. I dislike”
Cyril Connolly
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise: Which having no guide, overseer, or ruler, Provideth her meat in the summer, and gathereth her food in the harvest”
Bible
“'Tis the voice of the sluggard; I heard him complain, "You have wak'd me too soon, I must slumber again”
Isaac Watts
“Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise.”
“Plough deep while sluggards sleep.”
Benjamin Franklin
“Then plough deep while sluggards sleep, and you shall have corn to sell and to keep”
“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
Kurt Vonnegut
