Ocupation: Writer
Life: 1780 - 1832
Birthday: 1780
Death: 1832
There are three difficulties in authorship;-to write any thing worth the publishing-to find honest men to publish it -and to get sensible men to read it. Literature has now become a game; in which the Booksellers are the Kings; The Critics the Knaves; the Public, the Pack; and the poor Author, the mere table, or the Thing played upon.
topic: Kings, Writing, Men, Successful Writing, Booksellers