Annoying Quote by John Kenneth Galbraith

“One of my greatest pleasures in writing has come from the thought that perhaps my work might annoy someone of comfortably pretentious position. Then…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Sometimes I might go too far with the pretentious references, which I might not do again. But when you're writing, you're sitting alone in…

— John Michael McDonagh

...people today are so accustomed to pretentious nonsense that they see nothing amiss in reading without understanding, and many of them at length discover…

— George Albert Wells

Honestly, if anyone reads my work, they're doing me a favor, so they get to use whatever words they want to describe it. I…

— Celeste Ng

I kind of want to take the writer down a peg. I think there are a lot of pretentious writers in this business, which…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg

The most annoying and full- of- crap thing a writer says is, I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.…

— Harlan Coben

I'm not writing to encourage people to read my book or even books in general. That's not my job. My job is to write…

— Sally Rooney

The trouble is when people read about authors, they don't feel compelled to read the authors' work.

— Donna Tartt

As a reader, I have a very short attention span and a low tolerance for boredom, and I find that comes in handy with…

— John Scalzi

The idea that the reader is important enough to me that I'd tailor my words to either please or offend them always seems amusingly…

— Jim Goad

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

— Don Roff

The only way to write well, so that people believe what we say and are interested or touched by it, is to slough off…

— Brenda Ueland