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Telling a story is like playing a fiddle. No one want's to hear it when it's done badly — K.A. Young

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

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television. — Andy Rooney

Before too long I was playing badly out in some bars around Memphis, but as soon as I learned a few chords I started writing my own stuff. — Bryan Hayes

When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else. — Gerald Brenan

What could a person like Emily do? Could she possibly satisfy both sides? Or would that only end badly? — S.A. Tawks

A man who writes well writes not as others write, but as he himself writes; it is often in speaking badly that he speaks well. — Baron De Montesquieu

I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply? — Ernest Hemingway,

(Slap) "Owhhh ... " Raymond yelled as the Old Man's cane hit his face. — Judy Byington

People always write on my Facebook that they've seen somebody they thought was me on the subway, and I was cursing badly. — Gary Shteyngart

You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got nothing. — Tony Grisoni

I haven't had writer's block. I think it's because my process involves writing very badly. — Jennifer Egan

The primary benefit of practicing any art, whether well or badly, is that it enables one's soul to grow. — Kurt Vonnegut

Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly. — Moliere

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff ... forms a base on which to build something better. — Jennifer Egan

He who writes badly thinks badly — William Cobbett

I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing. — Anna Quindlen

It's good to write badly. Things can only get better. — Alan Dapre

General writing about science, even if we do it badly, helps us to see our work in perspective and broadens our vision. — Martin Rees

There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly. — Israel Zangwill

It can be said that one slip of point of view by a writer can hurt a story badly, and several slips can be fatal.' Stein on Writing — Sol Stein

A thrilling story can be dull if told badly, but even the most mundane event can be elevated into a tale of epic scale by a good storyteller. — Johnny Rich

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. — Francoise Sagan

Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Even a day writing badly for me is 10 times better than a day where I don't write at all. — Andre Dubus III

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style. — William Zinsser

A man always writes absolutely well whenever he writes in his own manner, but the wigmaker who tries to write like Gellert ... writes badly. — Georg C. Lichtenberg

If you want it badly enough, it's yours. — Gina Greenlee

Many of the characters are fools and they're always playing tricks on me
and treating me badly. — Jorge Luis Borges

Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling). — Christopher Hitchens

You have to write badly in order to write well. — William Faulkner