Famous quotes containing the words agent, john and/or connolly:
“The most durable thing in writing is style, and style is the most valuable investment a writer can make with his time. It pays off slowly, your agent will sneer at it, your publisher will misunderstand it, and it will take people you have never heard of to convince them by slow degrees that the writer who puts his individual mark on the way he writes will always pay off.”
—Raymond Chandler (18881959)
“How soon I may ride the whole world about;
And at the third question thou must not shrink,
But tell me here truly what I do think.”
—Unknown. King John and the Abbot of Canterbury (l. 3032)
“We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving.”
—Cyril Connolly (19031974)
Related Phrases
Related Words