bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you…

“Except in stock locutions, such as "You were paid yesterday," "The Germans were defeated," or "The project was abandoned," the passive voice is virtually…

— John Gardner

“There is one surefire way to produce bad writing: submit to the slavery of a deadline.”

— Flavia Idà

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

— Tom Waits

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

— Rachel Bloom

“A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from…

— Anonymous

“He isn't a - well...eh." She made a face. "Well, yeah.”

— Molly McAdams

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

— Dan Harmon

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

— Don Roff

“Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the question, and…

— Stephen King

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

— Ernest Hemingway

The way the show was conceived originally and developed, has always had good writing at the heart of it, it's very difficult to be…

— Denis Lawson

Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving…

— Douglas Rushkoff

“I wanted to let go, drop him, anything to get him out of my arms.”

— S.A. Bodeen

“You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a…

— Jennifer Egan