“There is one surefire way to produce bad writing: submit to the slavery of a deadline.” — Flavia Idà Copy Share Image
If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I'm really bad writing the chase scenes or fighting scenes. I'm much better for writing, like, a more melancholic or tragic music. — Ryuichi Sakamoto Copy Share Image
“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing… — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“My characters were...rebelling against something...My own bad writing. I wouldn't do for my characters what they needed for me to do -… — John Scalzi Copy Share Image
I love voiceover. I never understood this idea that it was lazy. Well, yes, there are those movies or TV shows that… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
“A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but… — Elizabeth Hardwick Copy Share Image
“Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious." [ Ten rules for writing fiction , The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
“Times are really bad. Everyone is writing a book and quoting themselves.” — Omar Kiam Copy Share Image
Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
“Bad movies and bad writing and easy cliches still manage to make us feel things toward each other. Part of me is… — Leslie Jamison Copy Share Image
Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
Bad writing as a conscious goal is liberating for students: They are freed to be creative in a new and different way. — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it. — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting. — Adam Brody Copy Share Image
The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go. — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done. — Carol Kane Copy Share Image
“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather;… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad… — Stephen Spender Copy Share Image
“Some truly bad writing, but brilliantly funny at the same time. "When he was yet a million miles away the bright ring… — Alan Glasser Copy Share Image
I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I… — Paul Sparks Copy Share Image
“When explicit thinking patterns were in charge, light waves of particular lengths were thought to stimulate Jenny’s optical nerve, changing hue of… — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
I'm tired of lying...I'm tired of pretending the show doesn't suck...I'm tired of pretending Ashton doesn't suck. It's nothing personal...I just feel… — Charlie Sheen Copy Share Image
“One great difference between good writing, that readers overlook, and bad writing, that they fail to notice, has to do with the… — Ira Levin Copy Share Image
I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
“I want to say something about bad writing. I'm proud of my bad writing. Everyone is so intelligent lately, and stylish. Fucking… — Ariana Reines Copy Share Image
“Like all his attempts at fiction it would be as personal as a letter—painful to those who knew him, of no interest… — Charles Jackson Copy Share Image
“I don’t believe it!Are you telling me that these ugly creepers have left the Land of Maradonia? And… they are now in… — Gloria Tesch Copy Share Image
