"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self." - "Meglio scrivere per se stessi e non avere un pub… - Cyril Connolly

"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self."

[The New Statesman, February 25, 1933]

Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.

Meglio scrivere per se stessi e non avere un pubblico, che scrivere per il pubblico e non avere se stessi.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.

Never will I make that extra effort to live according to reality which alone makes good writing possible: hence the manic-depressiveness of my style, — which is either bright, cruel and superficial; or pessimistic; moth-eaten with self-pity