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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
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
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.
— Truman Capote
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
That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.
— Nick Hornby
When I write, I am gossiping. Writing to whisper the story, whether good or bad to my listener.
— Sonia Rumzi
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
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.
— Ernest Hemingway,
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
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
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
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
Most things good for writing are bad for life.
— Lorrie Moore