Honest woman Quote by Wilkie Collins

“There are really no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.”

— Richard Le Gallienne

“You don’t have to be a brilliant writer; just don’t be boring.”

— Don Roff

“Even a dull life could make worthwhile reading, he said, provided the writer paid sufficient attention to detail.”

— Susan Hubbard

“Few subjects are inherently dull: language is where dullness or liveliness resides.”

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery.”

— George Orwell

“The dull people don't write interesting books. But they sure as hell can write them thick and fast.”

— Abram Gitspof

“Dullness it is that perverts and corrups the spirit but it is always possible to look past the dullness, and see the bright, shining…

— Jude Morgan

“There's supposed to be drama. The dull stories never make it into the books.”

— Ellery Adams

“She is no longer sure that people are always improved by what they read. Furthermore, she is not sure that writers who venture into…

— J.M. Coetzee

“I felt that blank incapability of invention which is the greatest misery of authorship, when dull Nothing replies to our anxious invocations.”

— Mary Shelley

“A person content to be bland will never be anyone's first choice as a companion for an idle afternoon.”

— Nancy Moser

“Your problem, dear chap, as I have had occassion to remind you, is that you see but you do not observe; you hear but…

— Edward B. Hanna