Writing bores me so.

If you have to find devices to coax yourself to stay focused on writing, perhaps you should not be writing what you're writing. And…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.

— Oscar Wilde

The cities of America are inexpressibly tedious. The Bostonians take their learning too sadly; culture with them is an accomplishment rather than an atmosphere;…

— Oscar Wilde

Bore: a man who is never unintentionally rude.

— Oscar Wilde

Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

— Oscar Wilde

Many people become bankrupt through having invested too heavily in the prose of life. To have ruined one's self over poetry is an honor.

— Oscar Wilde

Life in this society being, at best, an utter bore and no aspect of society being at all relevant to women, there remains to…

— Valerie Solanas

Attractive Etonians who go straight onto the Stock Exchange missing University on their fathers advice: the raw material of the great bores.

— Geoffrey Madan

And I am quite serious when I say that I do not believe there are, on the whole earth besides, so many intensified bores…

— Charles Dickens

Mr. Presley has no discernible singing ability. His specialty is rhythm songs which he renders in an undistinguished whine; his phrasing, if it can…

— Jack Gould

The poet's first rule must be never to bore his readers; and his best way of keeping this rule is never to bore himself-which,…

— Robert Graves

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Redtail was a brave warrior. His loyalty to ThunderClan could never be doubted. I always relied on his judgment, for it bore witness to…

— Erin Hunter

It's a bore - B-O-R-E - when you find you've begun to rot.

— Katharine Hepburn

All politicians are bores and liars and fakes. I talk to people.

— Martha Gellhorn