When prose gets too stylized and out of control - and Stein is sometimes a good example - when you don't know what the hell is going on, then it's kind of boring.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.
There is a tendency for writers to be most exciting by whatever they just wrote. Sometimes that excitement is warranted. Sometimes on further listen it's not as good as something they did a couple of years ago, but it's just not in their sights at that particular time.
The older I get, the more I seek to use a plain prose style, concentrating more on story.
A novel's whole pattern is rarely apparent at the outset of writing, or even at the end; that is when the writer finds out what a novel is about, and the job becomes one of understanding and deepening or sharpening what is already written. That is finding the theme.
As soon as things become predictable, they become boring.
What could be more exciting when the writing is going well and things are falling into place? It's just like riding a fabulous wave for a surfer. There's no better place to be.
I write novellas because I don't like loose sprawling prose.
It's exhausting writing nonfiction, particularly when it's personal. It's tiring, always speaking about things that are not necessarily fun retelling.
What could be more boring than a novel that tells you how to think about everything that happens in it?
When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.