Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by Cyril Connolly

Quote by Cyril Connolly

“The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.”

Quote by Cyril Connolly

Create image

Author

Cyril Connolly
Cyril Connolly

Cyril Connolly was a prominent British literary critic and writer, known for his profound insights into modern literature and culture. His works include literary criticism, novels, and essays, with his most famous works being 'The Enemies' and 'The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft'. Connolly's writing style was unique, characterized by satire and wit. more

You May Also Like

“In a certain sense I made a living for five or six years out of that one star [υ Sagittarii] and it is still a fascinating, not understood, star. It's the first star in which you could clearly demonstrate an enormous difference in chemical composition from the sun. It had almost no hydrogen. It was made largely of helium, and had much too much nitrogen and neon. It's still a mystery in many ways ... But it was the first star ever analysed that had a different composition, and I started that area of spectroscopy in the late thirties.”

WayYearsFirstsMadeStillsDifferentScienceCertainStarsUnderstandingDifferencesSunFiveToo MuchMysterySixLateUnderstoodAreasEnormousFascinatingChemicalsCompositionHydrogenNeonNitrogenHeliumSpectroscopy
Author:Jesse L. Greenstein
Create image