Wilfrid Sheed Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: December 27, 1930 - January 19, 2011
Birthday: December 27
Death: January 19
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 artists beyond their immediate utility. Good movements will use a writer just as ruthlessly as bad ones; since they all fancy they have better things to do than worry about one man's artistic survival.
source: Wilfrid Sheed (1978). “The good word and other words”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
topic: Men, Artist, Giving, Better Things To Do, Supposing That
