Trivial and Profound (2013)
Context: I wouldn’t want to be labelled a Woman Writer even though I’m definitely not a man. And I think Scottish Writer has some unfortunate associations.
Last century when I was commissioned to write my first novel, Scottish writers were being bullied by a purple nosed publisher to write in dialect. Well my voice is authentically Scottish. I’m an educated Scottish person who escaped. My voice is as valid as a whiny cunt who lives in a council flat and doesn’t quite speak English. That doesn’t mean I have to sound like Evelyn Waugh either.
I’d like to be called a Good Writer. To quote a review on Amazon, "Carole Morin is a Fucking Genius. Fact." Fucking Genius will do.
Interviewed in The New Yorker, May 7, 1955.
“If you need drugs to be a good writer, you're not a good writer.”
The Rod Serling bio page on the Internet Movie DataBase.
Other
“A bad writer is just a good writer with writer's block.”
Strip from November 18, 2006
Bucky Katt
interview with Lorin Morgan-Richards by Laura LaVelle of Newswhistle (28 November 2017).
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), I Want You
This quote was attributed to Darrow in the biography Clarence Darrow for the Defence (1949), but its earliest known source is from a journal entry of George Sand from 1835.
Misattributed
“If the public likes you, you're good. Shakespeare was a common, down-to-earth writer in his day.”
Writers on Writing interview (1986)
