This was such bad writing that it was good.

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting…

— William S. Burroughs

I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I admire them…

— Paul Sparks

“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 impressive word…

— Richelle E. Goodrich

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

“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

“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