Perversity Quote by Philip Roth

Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. the illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.…

— Philip Roth

At the end of the 1960s, I was part of the downtown theatrical movement in New York that was making work in alleyways, garages,…

— Robert Wilson

“The operating room turns you into somebody who's never wrong. Much like writing." "Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that…

— Philip Roth

“writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises. that thing you had to force yourself to do--the actual act…

— Anne Lamott

That thing you had to force yourself to do-the actual act of writing-turns out to be the best part.

— Anne Lamott

Read a lot, finding out what kind of writing turns you on, in order to develop a criterion for your own writing. And then…

— Rosemary Daniell

Eventually the bad stuff I'm writing turns into better stuff. Other times, I've just walked away from what I was working on, and figured…

— Margaret Haddix

To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is…

— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

Envy is the deformed and distorted offspring of egotism; and when we reflect on the strange and disproportioned character of the parent, we cannot…

— William Hazlitt

“Woman, thy name is perversity!”

— Margaret Way

It seems to me a measure of the true perversity of the human race, that one of its very few reliably pleasurable activities should…

— Otto Gross

Drawing is one of those things which sit on the uneasy bending line between instinct and instruction, where seeming perversity eventually trumps pleasure as…

— Adam Gopnik