Announcing Quote by Wilfrid Sheed

For now, I'm supposing that all movements are equal, which they're not, except in this respect: that none of them gives a damn about…

— Wilfrid Sheed

For Catholics before Vatican II, the land of the free was pre-eminently the land of Sister Says-except, of course, for Sister, for whom it…

— Wilfrid Sheed

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

— Wilfrid Sheed

It is possible that the malice of writers has been overrated (by myself among others). Reading their ruminations on their craft, one sees why…

— Wilfrid Sheed

As things now stand, the office is a slightly meaner battleground than the home. Male bosses seem to dominate their women underlings as they…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Mankind has always made too much of its saints and heroes, and how the latter handle the fuss might be called their final test.

— Wilfrid Sheed

Mushy reviews are a breach of faith

— Wilfrid Sheed

The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."

— Wilfrid Sheed

The town is as full as ever of 'characters,' all created by each other.

— Wilfrid Sheed

You noodle around with tempo and sound until you get the perfect fit for that particular song, and then, so long as you can…

— Wilfrid Sheed

Every writer is a writer of the generation before.

— Wilfrid Sheed

Mr Michener, as timeless as a stack of National Geographics, is the ultimate Summer Writer. Just as one goes back to the cottage in…

— Wilfrid Sheed