“Moral writing is boring.”
“... the moral is plain. Avoid, if possible, being bored yourself or boring others.”
“Fundamental accuracy of statement is the ONE sole morality of writing.”
“Don’t write what you know—what you know may bore you, and thus bore your readers. Write about what interests you—and interests you deeply—and your readers will catch fire at your words.”
“We journalists love writing about eccentrics. We hate writing about impenetrable, boring people. It makes us look bad: the duller the interviewee, the duller the prose. If you want to get away with wielding true, malevolent power, be boring.”
“The only rule I have found to have any validity is writing is not to bore yourself.”