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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

It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. — Ray Bradbury

People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn't make you good. Writing badly does. — Dan Harmon

There are plenty of bad editors who try to impose their own vision on a book. ( ... )
A good novel editor is invisible. — Terri Windling

Only bad actors memorize lines. Good actors are perpetually writing them as they act. — Mark Helprin

A piece of writing is never good," he told me. "There is simply a moment when it is less bad than before. — Joel Dicker

For life, it's very, very bad to be sensitive, but for a writer, it's very good. — Karl Ove Knausgard

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it. — Thomas C. Foster

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

For writers - even sportswriters - bad news is always easier than good, since it is, after all, more familiar. — Richard Ford

For every good song, I write 20 bad ones I have to chuck away. — Ian Dury

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true! — Philip Larkin

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing. — Truman Capote

You'll never be as good as the next page you write, or as bad as the last one. — D.E.M. Emrys

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
[Letter to J. Beauchamp Jones, August 8, 1839] — Edgar Allan Poe

If you write to impress it will always be bad, but if you write to express it will be good — Thornton Wilder

My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that. — Shaun Cassidy

And as to experience-well, think how little some good poets have had, or how much some bad ones have. — Elizabeth Bishop

There are a lot of bad screenplays so if you write a good screenplay people are going to respond to it. — Quentin Tarantino

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing. — Neil Gaiman

Read. Read. Read. Read many genres. Read good writing. Read bad writing and figure out the difference. Learn the craft of writing. — Carol Berg

That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away. — Nick Hornby

The best stories don't come from "good vs. bad" but "good vs. good. — Leo Tolstoy

When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener. — Sonia Rumzi

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different. — Ben Hecht

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway

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

Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature. — Andre Gide

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway,

The good news about self publishing is you get to do everything yourself. The bad news about self publishing is you get to do everything yourself. — Lori Lesko

Only bad writers think that their work is really good. — Anne Enright

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

A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author. — G.K. Chesterton

Good ideas ought not to be dressed up in bad prose. — Barbara Minto

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but it's the only way you can do anything good. — William Faulkner

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

Writers don't have bad life days; they just have good research days. — Julie Wright

There's a saying - "Write what you know." It's bad advice if you take it as an unbreakable rule, but good advice if you use it as a foundation. — Stephen King

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

Good or bad, words have an impact on each of us. As a writer, I can only hope that the effects my words have on others are more often good than bad. — Jessica Lave

The critics suppose that it is easy to write a play. They aren't aware that writing a good play is difficult and writing a bad one is twice as hard. — Anton Chekhov

Writers: read books. Read good books. Read bad books. Learn what does and does not work. — Kira Hawke

This was such bad writing that it was good. — William, Saroyan

Life would be so simple if we could re-write the bad parts but since we can't, let's make the good parts worth writing about — Sharlay

Remember the good hours when the words are flowing well. And never mind the bad hours; there is no life without them. — Herman Wouk

Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared. — Bertrand Russell

There is no such thing as a good writer and a bad liar. — Amy Bloom

Most things good for writing are bad for life. — Lorrie Moore