Now, practically all reviewers have academic aspirations. The people from the universities are used to a captive audience, but the literary journalist has to please his audience.
V. S. PritchettSooner or later, the great men turn out to be all alike. They never stop working. They never lose a minute. It is very depressing.
V. S. PritchettThe businessman who is a novelist is able to drop in on literature and feel no suicidal loss of esteem if the lady is not at home, and he can spend his life preparing without fuss for the awful interview.
V. S. Pritchett