Bland Quote by Tom Robbins

“All writing is filth”

— Antonin Artaud

Rich, ornate prose is hard to digest, generally unwholesome, and sometimes nauseating.

— Anonymous

If it were a rainy day, a drunken vigil, a fit of the spleen, a course of physic, sleepy Sunday, an ill run at…

— Jonathan Swift

“Dinginess is death to a writer. Filth, discomfort, hunger, cold, trauma and drama, don't matter a bit.”

— Jeanette Winterson

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

— Grace Metalious

“A well-known writer said writing is like getting sick to your stomach. You throw up and clean up afterward.”

— Maija Rhee Devine

“I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear may be…

— Stephen King

“Writing is wretched, discouraging, physically unhealthy, infinitely frustrating work. And when it all comes together it’s utterly glorious." National Novel Writing Month (NaNoWriMo) Pep…

— Ralph Peters

Writing is a delicious agony.

— Gwendolyn Brooks

Write to amuse? What an appalling suggestion! I write to make people anxious and miserable and to worsen their indigestion.

— Wendy Cope

Of all fatiguing, futile, empty trades, the worst, I suppose, is writing about writing.

— Hilaire Belloc

Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman other or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is…

— Terry Eagleton