"Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable……" — Derek Raymond
"Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap."
More Agreeable Quotes
- I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great… — Jane Austen
- An engaged woman is always more agreeable than a disengaged. She is satisfied with herself. Her cares are over, and… — Jane Austen
- Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul. — Johann Sebastian Bach
- Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. — Francis Bacon
- Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable… — Joseph Addison
- Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another. — Ambrose Bierce
- Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfils the same function as pain in the human body.… — Winston Churchill
- It is more agreeable to have the power to give than to receive. — Winston Churchill
- The problems of victory are more agreeable than those of defeat, but they are no less difficult. — Winston Churchill
- Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. — Thomas Aquinas
- The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable… — Seneca the Younger
- Good nature is more agreeable in conversation than wit and gives a certain air to the countenance which is more… — Joseph Addison