Author-advice Quote by A.K. Kuykendall

“It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.”

— Alan Dapre

“Some days I dread writing dreadfully, but I do it anyway. I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to writing something better.…

— Anne Quindlen

“I've discovered that sometimes writing badly can eventually lead to something better. Not writing at all leads to nothing.”

— Anna Quindlen

“The only thing worse than writing is not writing.”

— Buffy Cram

“Writing is easy. Writing is hard. It's a breeze and a struggle, just like life.”

— Dennis R. Miller

“The only thing he hates more than writing is not writing.”

— M. Pierce

“I began to write again. I wrote just for the fuck of it.”

— Fred Leebron

“I think the hard work of writing is just how long a book is terrible before it's good.”

— Leigh Bardugo

“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”

— Agatha Christie

“You can only write well, what you have experienced.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“How ill I have written. I begin to hate myself.”

— Jane Austen

“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.”

— Don Roff