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Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,…

— Eric Gill

Providing a writer isn't put off by conventions - and some are - attending them can be a nice break from the necessary isolation…

— Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You…

— Lev Grossman

“There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail — the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions – and so I didn't pay…

— Brock Clarke

There's only one common element that united every writer I've admired... they're all incredibly well-read.

— Steve Toltz

“Letters are, of course, quite special in my view, for when a reader has been sufficiently moved (or even perturbed) by a book to…

— Chinua Achebe

There is something underwhelming about scholarly hate mail - the sad literary allusions, the refusal to use contractions.

— Brock Clarke

Conventions, like clichés, have a way of surviving their own usefulness.

— Jane Rule

“Henry David Thoreau is my favorite writer of all time, my literary god king, and his essay Wild Apples is my favorite thing to…

— Nicholas Trandahl

“It should be a matter of honour on the Left to write at least as well, without redundancy or clutter, as its adversaries.”

— Perry Anderson

For the serious mediocre writer convention makes him sound like a lot of other people; for the popular writer it gives him a formula…

— Northrop Frye

“A fiction writer is nothing more then the ambassador of an alternative world of their own design. Their success dwells in how many people…

— Carl Henegan