Famous quotes containing the words polish and/or writer:
“The total and universal want of manners, both in males and females, is ... remarkable ... that polish which removes the coarser and rougher parts of our nature is unknown and undreamed of.”
—Frances Trollope (1780–1863)
“The writer in western civilization has become not a voice of his tribe, but of his individuality. This is a very narrow-minded situation.”
—Aharon Appelfeld (b. 1932)