Just Good Goddamn Writing Quotes

#1. Her breasts were big and sad like owls' eyes.

William T. Vollmann

#2. If I'm feeling hurt, sad, lonely, depressed, and then I shame myself for feeling that, then that's a black hole for me. I really have worked a lot to meet pain with both gratitude and gentleness.

Bellamy Young

#3. Bad literature is a form of treason.

Joseph Brodsky

#4. An armed disciplined force is in its essence dangerous to liberty.

Cecil Woodham-Smith

#5. I don't really believe in a creative-writing major as an undergraduate. It's a bad idea, terrible. I've met creative-writing majors from other places and they don't know a goddamn thing. They're the worst students. They just think they're good because they could pass.

Barry Hannah

#6. Leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. How do you gain influence from people? You invest in them. How do you invest in them? It starts with giving them time.

John C. Maxwell

#7. We had our British background of traditional theatre behind us.

Peter Capaldi

#8. Manners are manners. Jimmy Connors and Ilie Nastase have no respect. I don't want my kid seeing Nastase play. The demeanor you show on the court is important to tennis ... Maybe we (yesterday's stars) were too stereotyped. But we were told to behave or they'd take our racket away.

Rod Laver

#9. In every seed to breathe a flower, In every drop of dew To reverence a cloister star Within the distant blue; To wait the promise of the how, Despite the cloud between, Is Faith-the fervid evidence Of loneliness unseen.

John B. Tabb

#10. A hopeless man is a very desperate and dangerous man, almost a dead man.

Robert F. Kennedy

#11. I don't take notes; I don't outline, I don't do anything like that. I just flail away at the goddamn thing. I'm a salami writer. I try to write good salami, but salami is salami. You can't sell it as caviar.

Stephen King

#12. My friends, who sleep for all eternity; we do not forget you.

Karl Amadeus Hartmann

#13. Temptations are like dirty dishes. There are some who leave them alone, scarcely noticing how many have piled up. And there are some who must do them right away.

Daniel Handler

#14. Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do.

Richard Dawkins