Bad behavior Quote by Martin Amis Download Open image “I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.” — Martin Amis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad behavior Behavior Excited Habits Stupidity Thinking Writing
I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion. — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry. — Peter Carey Copy Share Image
I think writers like to see how people bring their words to life, and it's always surprising. Always, no matter what, whether it's good… — Lisa Edelstein Copy Share Image
There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen… — Stone Gossard Copy Share Image
Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they… — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they… — Gail Caldwell Copy Share Image
Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient. — Christopher Bollen Copy Share Image
Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a… — Alistair Cross Copy Share Image
“Yeah,' I said and started smoking another cigarette. Unless I inform you otherwise, I'm always smoking another cigarette.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“barrios; each barrio has two or three gangs, and all the gangs are theoretically” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I'm not interested in making a diagnostic novel or a concern. I'm 100 percent committed in fiction to the pleasure principle - that's what… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“If we all downed tools and joined hands for ten minutes and stopped believing in money, then money would no longer exist. We never… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When I see a lot of young faces in the audience, it's just sort of sinking in how important that is. Because you're old… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“I was informed by my viscera that now was the time to put my arm around her shoulders. I ignored them.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
It's becoming clearer and clearer to me that the world is there to be celebrated by writers, and in fact this is what all… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
In her final months Princess Diana was being shat upon by the tabloids -- basically for sleeping with an Arab. When she died, these… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
If you feel you have a strong constituency among the young, you can really die happy, because the great unanswered question, the only valid… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
My life looked good on paper - where, in fact, almost all of it was being lived. — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being conscious of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“It is chilling to know that some accepted ways of being with children can leave them vulnerable to suffering from anxiety, depression, or rage… — Natalie Taylor Copy Share Image
More often than not, the belief that you are bad contributes to the "bad" behavior. Change and learning occur most readily when you (a)… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
The desire to keep doing what we love supersedes the desire to penalize bad behavior. — Nell Scovell Copy Share Image
“Admit it—own up to the fact you have an undesirable habit. Tell the Lord about it (He already knows; it just helps you to… — Al Fike Copy Share Image
If you do anything today: trade in that bad behavior for a new and improved one. — Kaoru Copy Share Image
“wen am good you will not accept, now don't blame me for my bad behaviors ...” — sakhiabbas Copy Share Image
“We need to get our minds right, because right now we are behaving as if we are out of our right minds.” — Carlos Wallace Copy Share Image
“It’s extremely unlikely you will be magically transformed from a mediocre or average people manager to a Satya Nadella or a Ratan Tata. You… — Binod Shankar Copy Share Image
The Fox News that I know and work in is a team of producers, technicians, photographers, truck operators and production managers who barely have… — Martha MacCallum Copy Share Image
“[T]here are some human rights that are so deep that we can't negotiate them away. I mean people do heinous, terrible things. But there… — Sister Helen Prejean Copy Share Image
The end result of positively reinforcing bad behavior is that you get more of it. The culmination of a failure to punish predators is… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
