Literary Success of any Enduring Kind is Made Only by Refusing to do what Publishers Want by N. Bryllion Fagin | Writing Quote

 Literary Success of any Enduring Kind is Made Only by Refusing to do what Publishers Want by N. Bryllion Fagin

"Literary success of any enduring kind is made only by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public want, by refusing to accept any popular standard, by refusing to write anything to order”?

Excerpt from "Short Story Writing: An Art or a Trade? by N. Bryllion Fagin"

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Nathan Bryllion Fagin was a professor of English and drama at The Johns Hopkins University and director of the Hopkins Playshop.

Professor Fagin was born in Russia in 1892 and educated in the United States. He received the Ph. D. degree in English from Hopkins in 1932 and taught there until his retirement in 1957. He was the author of several books including "The Histrionic Mr. Poe" published in 1949. From 1930 to 1957, Professor Fagin was director of the Johns Hopkins Playshop. Nathan Bryllion Fagin died in Sarasota Florida, in 1972.

From the description of Nathan Bryllion Fagin papers, 1925-1951. (Johns Hopkins University). WorldCat record id: 49310163

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