I don't like a bunch of writers sitting around, puffing smoke, they like this book, he wrote this - tell me a dirty joke, you know. It's just not my style, I've never been that kind of person.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Too many writers get stuck in the trap of writing what they think is funny and not considering who they are writing it for.
I don't like to hurt people's feelings, and I don't like to knock other writers as a matter of principle.
I never knew a writer yet who took the smallest pains with his style and was at the same time readable.
I'm not going to write any more novels. I don't want to end up being one of these angry, bitter writers moaning that only three people are reading him. I don't want that.
I'm not a great writer.
This is terrible, when a writer is bored by his own work, but it was a real bomb and had reached the point where I couldn't even stand to look at it any more.
When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy.
I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
I'm not much of a joke writer.
I think that like all writers - and if any writer disagrees with this, then he is not a writer - I write primarily for myself.