Writing Quotes by Mason Cooley

Never lie in writing.

— Mason Cooley

The prison is the state writ small.

— Mason Cooley

Shaw writes as if it were always midday.

— Mason Cooley

Everything changes as it is written down.

— Mason Cooley

Writers tell more truths, and more lies, than most.

— Mason Cooley

I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

— Mason Cooley

Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

— Mason Cooley

The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.

— Mason Cooley

The modernist writers found despair inspirational.

— Mason Cooley

The more learned a writer, the more digression beckons him.

— Mason Cooley

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

— Mason Cooley

Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

— Mason Cooley

Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.

— Mason Cooley

The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

— Mason Cooley

There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

— Mason Cooley

Writers mean more than they say and say more than they mean.

— Mason Cooley

Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

— Mason Cooley

Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

— Mason Cooley

Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

— Mason Cooley

A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

— Mason Cooley

The writer considers sayability before anything else.

— Mason Cooley

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

— Mason Cooley