It's okay to write crap. Just don't try publishing it…

I get so sick and tired of Wikipedia. People write their own crap on there.

— Larry the Cable Guy

Don't be afraid to write crap - it makes the best fertilizer. The more you write the better your chances of growing something wonderful.

— Pat Pattison

If you just sit there, and you're a writer, you're bound to write crap. A lot of American writing is crap. And a lot…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I can always write. Sometimes, to be sure, what I write is crap, but it's words on the page and therefore it is something…

— Geraldine Brooks

If I lose, then I have to accept that my way of writing books is not the way society says it's okay to write.

— Asne Seierstad

A good day's writing, when I turn off my computer after I know that I've written okay, or as well as I can write,…

— James Lipton

Finally, if you want to write, you have to just shut up, pick up a pen, and do it. I'm sorry there are no…

— Natalie Goldberg

When you write a book, people legitimise it by actually reading the book and so it's almost okay to write another one.

— Eoin Macken

When we put the pen to paper, we articulate things in our life that we may have felt vague about. Before you write about…

— Julia Cameron

Studying James Fauntleroy, I learned it's okay to write a bad song. Just write another one the next day and hope that it's better.

— Syd

It is perfectly okay to write garbage--as long as you edit brilliantly.

— C. J. Cherryh

There are many people who get beat up, who suffer, who are victimized, and then they sit down to write and they write crap.…

— Jules Feiffer

“It ain't a crapshoot unless you write crap.”

— Jonathan O'Brien

“I hereby grant you permission to write crap. The more the better. Remember, crap makes the best fertilizer.”

— Pat Pattison

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

— Derek Raymond