Nature Quote by Henry David Thoreau

“Hard and steady and engrossing labor with the hands, especially out of doors, is invaluable to the literary man and serves him directly.”

— Henry David Thoreau

The ordinary literary man, even though he be an eminent historian, is ill-fitted to be a mentor in affairs of government. For... things are…

— Woodrow Wilson

The literary man has a circle of the chosen few who read him and become his only public. . . . What more natural…

— Amado Nervo

“I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary…

— George Bernard Shaw

A mere literary man is a dull man; a man who is solely a man of business is a selfish man; but when literature…

— Samuel Johnson

“The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.”

— C.S. Lewis

In the true Literary Man there is thus ever, acknowledged or not by the world, a sacredness: he is the light of the world;…

— Thomas Carlyle

Literary men now routinely tell their readers about their divorces. One literary man who reviews books wrote, in reviewing a study of Ruskin, that…

— George W. S. Trow

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

— Aaron Copland

The literary man? An indiscreet man, who devaluates his miseries, divulges them, tells them like so many beads: immodesty-the sideshow of second thoughts-is his…

— Emile M. Cioran

For if anything is capable of making a poet of a literary man, it is my hometown love of the human, the living and…

— Joseph Campbell

It always seems to me that one of the saddest things about the death of a literary man is the fact that the breaking-up…

— Stuart Dodgson Collingwood