"One must be ruthless with one's own writing……" — John Berryman

"One must be ruthless with one's own writing or someone else will be."

— John Berryman

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25 Quotes by John Berryman

John Berryman has 25 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

We must travel in the direction of our fear.
The artist is extremely lucky who is presented with the worst possible ordeal which will not actually kill him. At…
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so. After all, the sky flashes, the great sea yearns, we ourselves…
So if I were talking to a young writer, I would recommend the cultivation of extreme indifference to both praise…
Offering Dragons quarter is no good, they regrow all their parts and come on again. They have to be killed.
Literature bores me, especially great literature
Wishin' was dyin' but I gotta make it all this way to that bed on these feet.
We are using our own skins for wallpaper and we cannot win.
Praise will lead you to vanity, and blame will lead you to self-pity, and both are bad for writers.
Life, friends, is boring. We must not say so.
This world is gradually becoming a place Where I do not care to be any more.
Bats have no bankers and they do not drink and cannot be arrested and pay no tax and, in general,…

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