Frivolous Quote by Mason Cooley

“The shoddy writer wants only publication. He fails to recognize that almost anyone willing to devote between twelve and fourteen hours a day to…

— John Gardner

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

An author who enjoys writing may sometimes please other people by accident, but he can never pass on to any one else the zestful…

— J. E. Buckrose

A writer must take risks, defy the odds, be a bit obsessed and a little mad.

— Robert Cormier

“He began to view writing as a petty ambition, a frivolous and indulgent whim, creativity itself as the pathology of the very young or…

— Galt Niederhoffer

“Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted and slightly savage if…

— Jessamyn West

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

A writer is a maker, not a man of action: his private life is of no concern to anybody but himself, his family and…

— W. H. Auden

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

— John Berryman

One must be ruthless with ones own writing or someone else will be.

— John Berryman

When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.

— Anonymous

A writer without interest or sympathy for the foibles of his fellow man is not conceivable as a writer.

— Joseph Conrad