Boring Quote by Rick Moody

In fiction, conceptualizing, I've found, produces dull and over-controlled text.

— George Saunders

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford

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

Generally, I find that when you're writing and having fun with the writing, that energy and dynamism is going to come out in the…

— Daniel Alarcon

When complicated characters aren't well drawn, they're boring.

— Rebecca Eaton

I'm bothered, as a reader, when I feel the writer is filling in too much. Again, whether it's nonfiction or fiction, I think writers…

— Lynne Tillman

In general, in America, every discourse in literature in 15 minutes degenerates into a conversation about ethics, morality and this and that. The Holocaust…

— Joseph Brodsky

A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out…

— Diane Johnson

As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.

— Hunter Parrish

I have thought for many years that the audience any creative writer imagines has a great effect on what gets written.

— Pattiann Rogers

Prose writers are interested mostly in life and commas.

— Ursula K. Le Guin

When someone's a writer, it's very creative and moody, and you think of someone walking around the office in pajamas thinking of ideas.

— Stephanie Savage