Dull Quote by Clive James Download Open image “Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.” — Clive James ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dull Fiction Life
Fiction writing is just an excuse to go discover interesting things. — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is ... an endless and always defeated effort to capture some quality of life without killing it. — Rose Wilder Lane Copy Share Image
It's experiences in life that give us something to write about, and since good fiction is applied tension, you'll have an arsenal of good… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
...it seems to us that the readers who want fiction to be like life are considerably outnumbered by those who would like life to… — Sarah Caudwell Copy Share Image
The image that fiction presents is purged of the distractions, confusions and accidents of ordinary life. — Robert Penn Warren Copy Share Image
My wife spoke perfect Italian and she was very beautiful and very suave Italian men were crowding around her, talking all the time and… — Clive James Copy Share Image
The streets, at least in this part of town, seemed impossibly clean in comparison to London. The public telephones were unvandalised. For a London… — Clive James Copy Share Image
In London there was no home cooking worthy of the name. When you were in funds you ate out. But only the people whose… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Generally it is our failures that civilize us. Triumph confirms us in our habits. — Clive James Copy Share Image
I try to be specific. One thought at a time. Clear. Articulate. And above all, memorable, if you can be. You'd like to write… — Clive James Copy Share Image
Pound had argued - and Eliot had helped him prove - that a poem could be sustained by memorable moments. Olson proved that it… — Clive James Copy Share Image
One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him. — Clive James Copy Share Image
Little books are the things to write at my age, I've decided. Avoid the big ones, go for the little ones. — Clive James Copy Share Image
“Too many of my friends are dead, and others wrecked By various diseases of the intellect Or failing body. How am I still upright?… — clive james Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry… — Clifton Fadiman Copy Share Image
Music [is] the third rail of life. You grabbed it to shock yourself out of the dull drag of hours. To feel something. To… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
Whether one is twenty, forty, or sixty; whether one has succeeded, failed or just muddled along; whether yesterday was full of sun or storm,… — Leigh Mitchell Hodges Copy Share Image
I am simply looking for a companion with whom to spend my days, a companion who will cherish as much as I the stupidity… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
The world is a wonderfully weird place, consensual reality is significantly flawed, no institution can be trusted, certainty is a mirage, security a delusion,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Soothing words can become just another drug we swallow to dull our pain. — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is this theory of all work and no play that has made the Marxist such a very dull boy. — Herbert Read Copy Share Image
'You spin in the sky, the world spins under you, and you step from land to land, while we . . .' She turned… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know-and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
The most fascinating powers don't mean a thing if the guy's poorly motivated or dull, and the most generic powers won't hurt a well-motivated… — Kurt Busiek Copy Share Image
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