“No complete son of a bitch ever wrote a good sentence.”— Malcolm Cowley Related Quotes “The imagination needs moodling,–long, inefficient happy idling, dawdling and puttering.”— Brenda Ueland “Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.”— Derek Raymond “There is a point at which honesty becomes mischief. That’s when your writing becomes irresistible.”— Daphne Athas