Nearly all bookish people are snobs, and especially the more enlightened among them. They are apt to assume that if a writer has immense circulation, if he is enjoyed by plain persons, and if he can fill several theatres at once, he cannont possibly be worth reading and merits only indifference and disdain.
Arnold BennettIf egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
Arnold BennettJournalists say a thing that they know isn't true, in the hope that if they keep on saying it long enough it will be true.
Arnold BennettNo mind, however loving, could bear to see plainly into all the recess of another mind.
Arnold Bennett