Mason Cooley Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Creativity, Acting

• A great reader seldom recognizes his solitude.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Solitude, Reader

• There are different rules for reading, for thinking, and for talking. Writing blends all three of them.

  Mason Cooley

  Reading, Writing, Thinking

• The novel avoids the sublime and seeks out the interesting.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Interesting, Sublime

• Writing about an idea frees me of it. Thinking about it is a circle of repetitions.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Thinking, Circles

• I am most drawn to writing when I have something else urgent to do.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Urgent

• Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Play, Roles

• Lovers do all the talking and writing. What are the Beloveds thinking?

  Mason Cooley

  Love, Writing, Thinking

• The philosophy of hedonism means little to lovers of pleasure. They have no inclination to read philosophy, or to write it.

  Mason Cooley

  Philosophy, Writing, Mean

• Never lie in writing.

  Mason Cooley

  Lying, Writing, Never Lie

• Writing an upbeat aphorism is a temptation, but decorum forbids.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Temptation, Aphorism

  "City Aphorisms: Eighth Selection". Book by Mason Cooley, 1991.

• Shaw writes as if it were always midday.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Ifs

• Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

  Mason Cooley

  Writing, Sorrow, Unhappiness

• Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

  Mason Cooley

  Sex, Writing, Cruelty

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