Bad Writing Quotes
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Bad Writing Quotes & Sayings
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Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!
— Margarita Gakis
I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again.
— Charles Baxter
Promises were like bad checks, easy to write and hard to cash.
— Robert Charles Wilson
The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.
— Ray Bradbury
You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.
— Richard Le Gallienne
My attitude these days is, if you write a bad song, what are they gonna do, throw you in songwriter jail?
— John Hiatt
Bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it
— Charles Bukowski
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.
— Robert McKee
I'm really bad at writing jokes.
— Glenn Howerton
Bad writing is better than never writing. Bad writing can be improved, but if you never write, you'll never improve.
— Caroline Hemingway
Only bad actors memorize lines. Good actors are perpetually writing them as they act.
— Mark Helprin
Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.
— Christopher Isherwood
He isn't a - well...eh." She made a face. "Well, yeah.
— Molly McAdams
I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked for any help.
— Michael Hirst
A piece of writing is never good," he told me. "There is simply a moment when it is less bad than before.
— Joel Dicker
It's honestly a wonder that writing groups produce writers at all, instead of walking insecurities raised entirely in echo chambers of bad advice.
— Brandon Sanderson
Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look at it again.
— Gideon Glick
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
— Georg C. Lichtenberg
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.
— Adam Brody
It's the Abstract Expressionist approach to publishing. Throw ink at paper. Hope for pattern to emerge.
— Jay McInerney
Write a short story every week. It's not possible to write 52 bad short stories in a row.
— Ray Bradbury
This was such bad writing that it was good.
— William, Saroyan
Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work.
— Kira Hawke
He honestly expected her to believe that she could make a bad offering and her ancestors wouldn't mind.
— Helen Oyeyemi
For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar.
— Richard Ford
It's really a lovely feeling to write knowing that failure is taken off the table because if it's bad you just never show it to anyone.
— Peter Morgan
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
— Tom Waits
It is a good thing to read books, and need not be a bad thing to write them, but in any case, it is a pious thing to collect them.
— Frederick Locker-Lampson
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Honestly, all of 'Breaking Bad' was the best television experience of my entire life - the writing, the crew, the other actors.
— Mark Margolis
Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them.
— Herman Wouk
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
— Jacques Barzun
He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
— Milton Berle
If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good
— Thornton Wilder
Writing is hard work and bad for the health.
— E.B. White
Most things good for writing are bad for life.
— Lorrie Moore
I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank page.
— Nora Roberts
There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it.
— Quentin Tarantino
Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared.
— Bertrand Russell
I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends.
— Michael Dumontier
Good ideas ought not to be dressed up in bad prose.
— Barbara Minto
A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.
— G.K. Chesterton
As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure of that.
— Virginia Woolf
Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.
— Rachel Bloom
It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting.
— Peter Greenaway
Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.
— Walter Darby Bannard
Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
— Anne Enright
No.'It's not a bad word.
And it is very important to use at times.
Practice saying it in the mirror.
It's empowering. — Christy Hall
I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example ...
— Aldous Huxley
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
I wrote a fair amount of poetry in college. It was really, really bad. I mean, bad. And that's how I found out - by doing it.
— John McPhee
Because I want to have sex with himand because that's sinful
I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny. — Jess C. Scott
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
— Aldous Huxley
I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one.
— Nora Roberts
I think writing a book with film in mind is a way to write a really bad books. You can usually tell those books that are packaged to become films.
— Charlize Theron
If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
I'm always writing. It might be a bad song, but I'm always writing.
— Phillip Phillips
Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas - only I don't exactly know what they are!
— Lewis Carroll
It doesn't matter if your lead character is good or bad. He just has to be interesting, and he has to be good at what he does.
— David Chase
Bad poetry is caused by people who sit down and think, Now I am going to write a Poem.
— Charles Bukowski
When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck.
— Chad Kroeger
