Famous quotes containing the word minor:
“For a country to have a great writer ... is like having another government. Thats why no rĂ©gime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.”
—Alexander Solzhenitsyn (b. 1918)
“Even a minor event in the life of a child is an event of that childs world and thus a world event.”
—Gaston Bachelard (18841962)
“To minor authors is left the ornamentation of the commonplace: these do not bother about any reinventing of the world; they merely try to squeeze the best they can out of a given order of things, out of traditional patterns of fiction.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (18991977)
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