Writing Quote by Kingsley Amis Download Open image “If you can't annoy somebody, there is little point in writing.” — Kingsley Amis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Writing
I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone. — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
I don't tally the world, asking, "Would this annoy you? Would this annoy you?" That's so far removed from where I'm at when I'm… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
If you know somebody is going to be awfully annoyed by something you write, that's obviously very satisfying, and if they howl with rage… — A. N. Wilson Copy Share Image
I almost always urge people to write in the first person. ... Writing is an act of ego and you might as well admit it. — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
When you write for somebody else, you've got to write from their standpoint. You can't really write from your own point of view. — The D.O.C Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Never despise a drink because it is easy to make and/or uses commercial mixes. Unquestioning devotion to authenticity is, in any department of life,… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The rewards for being sane may not be very many, but knowing what's funny is one of them. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
The human race has not devised any way of dissolving barriers, getting to know the other chap fast, breaking the ice, that is one-tenth… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“{Rogers} sexual aim is “to convert a creature who is cool, dry, calm, articulate, independent, purposeful into a creature who is the opposite of… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
If there's one word that sums up everything that's gone wrong since the war, it's Workshop. After Youth, that is. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It scored right away with me by being the smooth, fine-grained sort, not the coarse flaky, dry-on-the-outside rubbish full of chunds of gut and… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
It's never pleasant to have one's unquestioning beliefs put in their historical context, as I know from experience, I can assure you. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“Jake did a quick run-through of women in his mind, not of the ones he had known or dealt with in the past few… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
“I don't allow people of your sort to stand in my way. That's what you're leaving out of account. I'm having Christine because it's… — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
When I passed the Chancellor he arose, waved his hand at me, and I waved back at him. I think the writers showed bad… — Jesse Owens Copy Share Image
I wanted to write about voodoo tradition that I feel has been very important to survival of black people here: people of the African… — Jesmyn Ward Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
Forcing modern speakers of English to not - whoops, not to split an infinitive because it isn't done in Latin makes about as much… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I would drink gallons of coffee a day. Even now, off caffeine, I talk faster than anyone you've ever met. I finally recognized that… — Nathan Englander Copy Share Image
Gratitude isn't just a feeling, it's an action. Expressing gratitude by writing in a journal, taking a photo, or shooting a video creates a… — Janice Kaplan Copy Share Image
Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab,… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Most of us can read the writing on the wall; we just assume it's addressed to someone else. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
