Michael Moorcock (Michael John Moorcock) Quotes

It remains a mystery to me why some of that pulp fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social literary fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.

Michael Moorcock

• Attention
• Social
• Mystery
• Fiction
• Judged
• Editors
• Imperialism
• Pulp

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• Writers of fiction, when they begin, are more likely to try the short form.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Try
  • Fiction
  • Short

• A man's face is his autobiography. A woman's face is her work of fiction.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Work
  • Face
  • Fiction

• I pay attention to lyrics and I know what rap fans care about. I try to write for the average listener and I'm conscious of the mainstream without selling out.

  

  J. Cole
  • Know
  • Attention
  • Care

• I was a weirdo. I think I wanted to be liked, but I didn't have the attention or bother to actually make an effort to be. I also think I had a different perception of what I needed to do to be liked.

  

  Halsey
  • Different
  • Think
  • Attention

• That's very nice if they want to publish you, but don't pay too much attention to it. It will toss you away. Just continue to write.

  

  Natalie Goldberg
  • Want
  • Attention
  • Nice

• We are lucky to have Manmohan Singh as our Prime Minister. We could not have done without a person and leader of the choice as Manmohan Singh, who gets all international attention.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • Done
  • Attention
  • Leader

• History repeats itself. So you might wanna pay attention.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • History
  • You
  • Attention

• The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Love
  • Death
  • For Her

• The artist who parades his drawing, the writer who calls attention to his style, is like the farmer who devotes his energies to polishing farm implements and never uses them.

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Attention
  • Style
  • Drawing

• I haven't always been the guy that walks into a room and automatically the attention is on me. I'm normally the guy that stands off in the corner.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Guy
  • Attention

• Each person's drive to overwork is unique, and doing too much numbs every workaholic's emotions differently. Sometimes overwork numbs depression, sometimes anger, sometimes envy, sometimes sexuality. Or the overworker runs herself ragged in a race for attention.

  

  Arlie Russell Hochschild
  • Attention
  • Unique
  • Depression

• I love being the center of attention. I'm shameless about it.

  

  Brendon Urie Panic! at the Disco
  • Attention
  • Shameless

• Our attention spans have been reduced by the immediate gratification provided by smartphones and social media.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • Attention

• I've always wanted to be the center of attention.

  

  Maria Conchita Alonso
  • Attention

• Your first pregnancy you have nothing to do except sleep and take care of yourself and go to prenatal yoga or whatever. Now I have a full-time job, I have a four-year-old, I've got a life that is demanding my attention, so I've gone to prenatal yoga once. It's such a bummer.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Life
  • Time
  • Job

• But you know, there's something about the kids finishing their homework in a given day, working one-on-one, getting all this attention - they go home, they're finished. They don't stall, they don't do their homework in front of the TV.

  

  Dave Eggers
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Attention

• If I need to steal from a difficult spot, I like to use a 'bottom-up' attention strategy to direct the focus.

  

  Apollo Robbins
  • Up
  • Attention
  • Focus

• If I did want to get a girl's attention, it would just be in some way where I would just start talking to her. It would have to feel organic. It's too weird otherwise.

  

  Dylan O'Brien
  • Girl
  • Attention
  • Weird

• San Francisco has long been a leader in the arts, nurturing generations of painters, sculptors, poets, novelists, playwrights, film-makers, and performing artists and innovators of every kind.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Long
  • Kind
  • Leader

• Whatever my intentions, whatever the truth of my claim, I had no business giving a lecture to a total stranger.

  

  Ayelet Waldman
  • Business
  • Truth
  • Giving

• Winning isn't the end of the world

  

  David Pleat
  • World
  • Winning

• You have to be kind to yourself to survive in the world.

  

  Paul Dini
  • Kind
  • Yourself
  • Survive

• The writing was so clearly written on the wall about me, but I didn't see it. I had no role models. I didn't know there was even a possibility of being gay. I battled with it, but this was the way God made me. If you have a problem with it, take it up with the man upstairs.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Up
  • God
  • Writing

• It remains a mystery to me why some of that pulp fiction should be judged inferior to the rafts and rafts of bad social literary fiction which continues to be treated by literary editors as if it were somehow superior, or at least worthier of our attention. The careerist literary imperialism of the Bloomsbury years did a lot to produce fiction's present unseemly polarities.

  

  Michael Moorcock
  • Attention
  • Social
  • Mystery