Superficiality Quote by Graham Greene Download Open image “So much in writing depends on the superficiality of one's days.” — Graham Greene ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Superficiality Writing
One can become drab, dull, and boring doing the same thing every day. Writing helps break the monotony. — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard… — Chris Cleave Copy Share Image
The truth is, writing is this: hard and boring and occasionally great but usually not. — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don’t write at all. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Most days, writing simply requires work-ethic, discipline, clarity, focus, time. Other days...it will demand absolutely everything of you.” — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
I write much better in the nonconfines of the early morning than I do the clutter of the day. — Rod Serling Copy Share Image
Writing responds well to some gentle scheduling. A day job not only promotes solvency, it promotes creativity as well. — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
What you have to do as a writer is . . . write day in and day out no matter what happens. — William Stafford Copy Share Image
I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic… — Hari Kunzru Copy Share Image
Often I think writing is a sheer paring away of oneself leaving always something thinner, barer, more meagre. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Many people measure their self-worth based on how much money they make... once one is able to provide for basic physical needs (food shelter,… — Mark Manson Copy Share Image
I think in fact that unless there is an organic link between the subjective impressions of the author and his objective representation of reality,… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Superficiality is the curse of our age. The doctrine of instant satisfaction is a primary spiritual problem. — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
But progress in knowledge has made us aware of the superficiality of Plato's lumping of individuals and their original powers into a few sharply… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“It wasn't until the show was almost over that I figured out what it was: the crack above my David Onica that I had… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
It's better to shake off superficial sometimes fake friends. There's a lot of truth in the old saying birds of a feather flock together. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own pollution.” — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“Now his imagination spun about the hand as about the edge of a vortex; but still he made no effort to draw nearer. He… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
“The very essence of Australia is our lack of sophistication–our refusal to conform to pretension and superficiality. We ought to be upholding our ‘fair-dinkumness’… — Tim Macartney-Snape Copy Share Image
“Their constant outward-looking, their mania for radios, cars, and a thousand other trinkets made them dream and fix their eyes upon the trash of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
