There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
“Times are really bad. Everyone is writing a book and quoting themselves.” — Omar Kiam Copy Share Image
There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people. — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting. — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person… — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“…After all, it isn't really difficult to write books. Especially if you either write a rotten story in good English or a… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time. "When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring… — Alan Glasser Copy Share Image
I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I'm convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. If one is writing for one's own pleasure, that fear… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“One great difference between good writing, that readers overlook, and bad writing, that they fail to notice, has to do with the… — Ira Levin Copy Share Image
“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled… — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
“The problem is that the inner critic is actually an indispensable element of any writer’s working life; it is the immune system,… — Patricia Costa Viglucci Copy Share Image
“Like all his attempts at fiction it would be as personal as a letter—painful to those who knew him, of no interest… — Charles Jackson Copy Share Image
“In less than an hour I have to hold class for a group of idiot freshmen. And, on a desk in the… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe it!Are you telling me that these ugly creepers have left the Land of Maradonia? And… they are now in… — Gloria Tesch Copy Share Image
I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Interviewer ...In the case of "American Psycho" I felt there was something more than just this desire to inflict pain--or that Ellis… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“This too to remember. If a man writes clearly enough any one can see if he fakes. If he mystifies to avoid… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It won't work. You see, he is a liar and a thief. And he's been one for too long. He can't retire… — Julien Duvivier Henri Jeanson Copy Share Image
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