There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work. (William Gaddis)

There is nothing more distressing or tiresome than a writer standing in front of an audience and reading his work.

William Gaddis

Related topics

audience front nothing reading standing work writer

Related quotes

Who is more to be pitied, a writer bound and gagged by policemen or one living in perfect freedom who has nothing more to say? View quote
Kurt Vonnegut
I had grown tired of standing in the lean and lonely front line facing the greatest enemy that ever confronted man - public opinion. View quote
Clarence Darrow
Any writer, I suppose, feels that the world into which he was born is nothing less than a conspiracy against the cultivation of his talent. View quote
James Baldwin
I always turn to the sports section first. The sports section records people's accomplishments; the front page nothing but man's failures. View quote
Earl Warren
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work. View quote
Booker T. Washington