Aspirations Quote by E. F. Benson

Every young writer, I imagine, has their first intellectual magazine, whose essays and articles are devoured all the more greedily for being slightly over…

— Ross Douthat

Phooey, I say, on all white-shoe college boys who edit their campus literary magazines. Give me an honest con man any day.

— Anonymous

A smart, intellectual magazine is a difficult thing to run because of the need to manage conflicting personalities and opinionated writers who clash constantly,…

— Ben Domenech

Satire about any and all professionals with a special vocabulary has been a staple of fiction and popular ridicule since the 18th century.

— Paul Fry

What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

— Hugh Hefner

Magazines at some point become hostage to their own success.

— Graydon Carter

Apparently magazine; giving you the latest bullshit since high school began

— Sacha-Leigh Smith

“…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And…

— Eliot Schrefer

For more than twenty years he [Blanchard] toiled on through the most fatiguing paths of literary composition, mostly in periodicals, often anonymously; pleasing and…

— Samuel Laman Blanchard

With no other privilege than that of sympathy and sincere good wishes, I would address an affectionate exhortation to the youthful literati, grounded on…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Every since high school I've been drawn to magazines.

— Robert Benton

The whole thing about magazines is that, magazines are going to become deeper and more tutorial, and the nature of the magazine is going…

— Kelly Cutrone