I am writing a book about the Crusades so dull that I can scarcely write it.
I've had a lot of books rejected in my time. My first novel, which didn't get published, was, with hindsight, crashingly dull.
The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
I never met an author who admitted that people did not buy his book because it was dull.
Accept a miracle, instead of wit See two dull lines, with Stanhope's pencil writ.
The language has got to be fully alive - I can't bear dull, flaccid writing myself and I don't see why any reader should put up with it.
Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English.
