Pretentious Quote by John Michael McDonagh

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

— 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

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

I tend to write from a personal place, and most of the time when I'm writing by myself, it's coming from something I've experienced.

— Aubrie Sellers

I very rarely write anything before what I see what I'm writing for.

— Henry Mancini

“Each time you sit down to write, you should cleanse your linguistic palate by reading some things that are vastly unlike what you’ve been…

— Michael Erard

When you're writing, you're conjuring. It's a ritual, and you need to be brave and respectful and sometimes get out of the way of…

— Tom Waits

Now I write often. I decided that I need to write for myself - I can't really direct other people's material.

— Brady Corbet

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

I rarely write by myself.

— Rob Halford

“As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and keep an…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

I write in longhand. I am accustomed to that proximity, that feel of writing. Then I sit down and type.

— James Salter