Horace Walpole Quotes

The world may be full of fourth-rate writers but it's also full of fourth-rate readers.

I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.

Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'

Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

A good novel cannot be too long or a bad novel too short.

To call that writing, madam, is an insult to quills and ink across the world.

All bad writers are in love with the epic.

An editor is like a professional reader, and as I became a better reader, I also became a better writer.

Who hath no head, needes no heart.

To have everything you want, help as many people as you can possibly find get everything they want.

Sure, that's what I mean,' Doc Daneeka said. 'A little grease is what makes this world go round. One hand washes the other. Know what I mean? You scratch my back, I'll scratch yours.' Yossarian knew what he meant. That's not what I meant,' Doc Daneeka said, as Yossarian began scratching his back.

Hope is the biggest of our foolish things.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

We must reprogram ourselves to understand that cooperation is a higher principle than competition.

You could compile the worst book in the world entirely out of selected passages from the best writers in the world.

Whoever puts his confidence in men or in any creature is very foolish.

Knaves starve not in the land of fools.

A fool, for example, thinks Shakespeare a great poet . . . yet the fool has never read Shakespeare.

There is no self-interest completely unrelated to others' interests. Due to the fundamental interconnectedness which lies at the heart of reality, your interest is also my interest. From this it becomes clear that "my" interest and "your" interest are intimately connected. In a deep sense, they converge.