What are Masterpieces? Let us Name a Few

By: Cyril Connolly

“While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.”

― Cyril Connolly

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence.

Obvious though this should be, how few writers will admit it, or having drawn the conclusion, will be prepared to lay aside the piece of iridescent mediocrity on which they have embarked!