“And some poets are far better read off the page because they're very bad speakers. I'm thinking of one in particular whom I won't name, a good poet, and he reads in such a dry, boring way, your eyes start drooping.” ThinkingWayEyeLiteratureNamesParticularPoetPagesBoringDrySpeakers Author:Norman MacCaig
“The more boring a newspaper is, the more it is respected. The most respected newspaper in the United States is The New York Times, which has thousands of reporters constantly producing enormous front-page stories about bauxite...The [New York] Post would write about bauxite only if famous celebrites were arrested for snorting it in an exclusive Manhattan nightclub.” IfsWritingStatesStoriesUnitedUnited StatesMediaFrontsNew YorkPagesBoringNewspapersEnormousPostsReportersExclusiveArrestedManhattanNew York TimesNightclubs Author:Dave Barry
“To dismiss basic contexts such as link colours, page layouts, navigation systems, and visual hierarchy as 'boring' or 'pedestrian' is akin to laughing at a car's steering wheel as unimaginative.” LaughingCarPagesBoringWheelsVisualsColourLinksHierarchySteeringNavigationPedestriansLayout Book:The Art & Science of Web Design Source: The Art & Science of Web Design
“I learned capacity for self-reflection very early, finding it through interior monologues that books are so good at and that visual media is so bad at because it's so boring - nothing's happening. In a book, you can be inside the narrator's head for 50 pages, and nothing needs to happen. Then you learn to be inside your own head without something needing to happen. It's a very good antidote to a crazy, restless, "what's next?" culture - that you can just be in your own head and nothing is happening except that this is a rich place. I love that.” NeedsBookSelfHappensCultureNextRichCrazyMediaFindingsPagesHappeningsReflectionCapacityVery GoodBoringVisualsInteriorsRestlessAntidoteSelf ReflectionMonologuesNarratorsSo Boring Author:Jeanette Winterson
“My best times are midnight to six actually. I'll leaf through my notebooks and if something catches my eye and I feel like I want to transfer it from the notebook to the page, I do, and then comes this very strange process which is difficult to describe in that I'll write until I get stuck or I can't go any further or I'm boring myself or whatever and then I might go to another poem.” IfsWantFeelsWritingI CanMightEyeProcessDifficultStrangeSixPagesBoringStuckLeafsMidnightNotebookTransfersBest Times Author:Rita Dove
“People write about getting sick, they write about tummy trouble, they write about having to wait for a bus. They write about waiting. They write three pages about how long it took them to get a visa. I'm not interested in the boring parts. Everyone has tummy trouble. Everyone waits in line. I don't want to hear about it.” PeopleWantWritingLongThreeWaitingLinesTroublePagesSickBoringBusNot InterestedVisa Author:Paul Theroux