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- “A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.”Cyril Connolly
- “Hate is the consequence of fear; we fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man…”Cyril Connolly
- “All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.”Cyril Connolly
- “The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece…”Cyril Connolly
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- “Cinema is a visual language, and you're always looking for visual metaphors for things. You know, if I was wr…”John Logan
- “A good TV writer needs all the same tricks a good novelist has.”Dean Bakopoulos
- “The emotional tone or affect of the tale should be hot and engaged, not remote and dispassionate.”Paul Di Filippo
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Books by Cyril Connolly
Unquiet Grave a Word Cycle
1973
Enemies of promise and other essays
1960