1,425 Quotes by Mason Cooley

The writer considers sayability before anything else.

The writer is always courted by invitations from the all-too- familiar.

The noisy vacancy of youth, the quiet vacancy of age.

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

Sex and writing live on playful cruelties.

Youth demands more than ordinary life. Age clings to it.

Writing is a refuge from unhappiness, but has its own sorrows.

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.