Everyone has a certain amount of bad writing to get out of their system. — Elif Batuman 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 bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad. — Ralph Waldo Emerson 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
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people. — James Ellroy 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
Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to… — Douglas Rushkoff Copy Share Image
I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more… — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in… — Eliza Coupe 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
“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
I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person… — Rachel Bloom 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
“The problem is that the inner critic is actually an indispensable element of any writer’s working life; it is the immune system,… — Patricia Costa Viglucci Copy Share Image
Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled… — George Henry Lewes 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
“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… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer… — Pankaj Mishra 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
“Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the… — Stephen King 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 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
“In less than an hour I have to hold class for a group of idiot freshmen. And, on a desk in the… — Richard Matheson 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
“It won't work. You see, he is a liar and a thief. And he's been one for too long. He can't retire… — Julien Duvivier Henri Jeanson Copy Share Image
“Except in stock locutions, such as "You were paid yesterday," "The Germans were defeated," or "The project was abandoned," the passive voice… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“If what's always distinguished bad writing--flat characters, a narrative world that's clichéd and not recognizably human, etc.--is also a description of today's… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
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