Books Quote by Erin McCarthy

The hope in literature is that we are allowed to be imperfect, to write of our imperfection, without being overly critiqued for being unlikeable.

— Kate Zambreno

There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don't know any author who'd…

— David Levithan

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

— Antonio Tabucchi

“There is a big difference between an imperfect book that is read and a perfect book that is never written”

— Don Newman

There are novels that end well, but in between there are human beings acting like human beings. And human beings are not perfect. All…

— Margaret Atwood

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

I have never meant a person that was perfect. We all make mistakes. Even the people that think they're perfect.

— Anonymous

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

— Haruki Murakami

Nobody is perfect and everybody has flaws, but it takes a real man and a real woman to look past those flaws.

— Anonymous

“Perfect is highly overrated. I'm a character in my story, going through the chapters of my life as if it was written by an…

— Vi Keeland

A person who claims to be perfect is in truth a monster of this world. It is our flaws that make us beautiful and…

— Skyla Brumley

“They could never quite reconcile themselves to the idea that our lives don't follow the dramatic arc that a good author gives to a…

— Ian Caldwell