When you never leave the literary biosphere, you forget how few people actually read books, and that in turn makes you start overestimating both your ability to make money and your relative renown, which has dangerous consequences: the first means you may end up in debt; the second means you may end up a horrid bore.
to my thinking, it is more pitiable to bore than to be bored.
The 11th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore God. The 12th Commandment: Thou Shalt Not Bore Thyself.
Bore: one who has the power of speech but not the capacity for conversation.
The only good writing is intuitive writing. It would be a big bore if you knew where it was going. It has to be exciting, instantaneous and it has to be a surprise. Then it all comes blurting out and it’s beautiful. I’ve had a sign by my typewriter for 25 years now which reads, ‘DON’T THINK!’
We often forgive those who bore us, but we cannot forgive those whom we bore.
He'd noticed that sex bore some resemblance to cookery: it fascinated people, they sometimes bought books full of complicated recipes and interesting pictures, and sometimes when they were really hungry they created vast banquets in their imagination - but at the end of the day they'd settle quite happily for egg and chips. If it was well done and maybe had a slice of tomato.
The words that bore the deathless verse of Homer from bard to a group of fascinated hearers, and with whose fading sounds the poems passed beyond recall, are fixed on the printed page in a hundred tongues. They carry to a million eyes what once could reach but a hundred ears.
Theatre can entertain, provoke, challenge, investigate, comfort and educate. It's arrogant of a playwright to think education is more important than anything else. Writing for the theatre does not give you permission to lecture, hector or bore.
We often bore others when we think we cannot possibly bore them.
Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.
The sightless Milton, with his hair Around his placid temples curled; And Shakespeare at his side,-a freight, If clay could think and mind were weight, For him who bore the world!
The woman who bore me is no longer alive, but I seem to be her daughter in increasingly profound ways.
I don't pray really, because I don't want to bore God.
unbroken happiness is a bore: it should have ups and downs.
The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrationa bipeds who hurt only themselves.
Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.
Save the fleeting minute; learn gracefully to dodge the bore.
What shouldn't you do if you're a young playwright? Don't bore the audience! I mean, even if you have to resort to totally arbitrary killing on stage, or pointless gunfire, at least it'll catch their attention and keep them awake. Just keep the thing going any way you can.
You need to let the little things that would ordinarily bore you suddenly thrill you.