Poor Writing Quotes: top 31 famous quotes about Poor Writing

Poor Writing Quotes & Sayings

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Writers are writing in every corner of the globe.
Writers are writing, moreover, in rich countries and poor countries alike. — Minae Mizumura

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living. — Moliere

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy. — Richard Flanagan

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. — Christopher Isherwood

I'm a poor artist. Through brute force, I brought myself up to mediocre. I've never taken a writing class, but I can write okay. — Scott Adams

Writer. Another word for poor. — Buffy Andrews

Buck up, suck up, and admit you fucked up. — Linda Hilton

I'm proud that I've never stopped writing about being poor. — Eileen Myles

When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on. — Carl Sandburg

Poor Knight! he really had two periods, the firsta dull man writing broken English, the seconda broken man writing dull English. — Vladimir Nabokov

If all the earth were paper white / And all the sea were ink / 'Twere not enough for me to write / As my poor heart doth think. — John Lyly

I feel very rich when I have time to write and very poor when I get a regular paycheck and no time at my real work. — Natalie Goldberg

Here's one prophecy the writer can make - you'll never be rich and you'll probably be poor. — Chloe Thurlow

Bottom line, when someone defensively says their way of writing is their style, then that usually means they're making an excuse for poor prose. — A.J. Flowers

I don't spend money on books. I write them myself. — Ljupka Cvetanova

I usually have poor to absent relations with editors because they have a habit of desiring changes and I resist changes. — William H Gass

To have a specific style is to be poor in speech. — Herbert Spencer

A story that has nothing but action and plot is a pretty poor affair; and some great stories have neither. — Ursula K. Le Guin

Poor, harmless paper, that might have gone to print a Shakespeare on, and was instead so clumsily defaced with nonsense. — Robert Louis Stevenson

I think poor poetry writing skills are excused when you're simply trying to flush out emotions. — Katie Kiesler

Writing is not for poor minds. — Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

I found nothing really wrong with this autobiography except poor choice of subject. — Clifton Fadiman

And there was that poor sucker Flaubert rolling around on his floor for three days looking for the right word. — Dorothy Parker

Better a good journalist than a poor assassin. — Jean-Paul Sartre

My poor Isabel. Here, take this and write. Unburden your heart; if you don't you are going to die of anguish. — Isabel Allende

Apparently, my hopes, dreams and aspirations were no match against my poor spelling, punctuation and grammar. — Red Red Rover

A poor writer is one who names rather than represents. — Italo Calvino

I need a sound-proof room to tie up the inner critic, gag her and nail the door shut. But she keeps escapping. Poor knots and short nails. — Judy L Mohr

God pity the poor novelist. — Steven Millhauser

Poor reading, like poor writing, is imposing what you already know on texts. You should go into reading to discover, not to reaffirm what you know. — Azar Nafisi

The survival of poor opinions can make a thinker feel as though he is failing humanity. — Criss Jami