Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness…

“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

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

— S.A. Bodeen

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

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

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

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

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

— Don Roff

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

— Dan Harmon

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

— Molly McAdams

“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

“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

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

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

— Tom Waits

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

— Flavia Idà

“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