It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
“Finished crap can be edited. Unfinished greatness languishes forever. The only bad writing is the thing you didn't write!” — Margarita Gakis Copy Share Image
I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. — Steve Buscemi Copy Share Image
“There is one surefire way to produce bad writing: submit to the slavery of a deadline.” — Flavia Idà Copy Share Image
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does. — Dan Harmon 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
“(Slap) “Owhhh … ” Raymond yelled as the Old Man’s cane hit his face.” — Judy Byington Copy Share Image
“Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.” — Jess C. Scott 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
You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be… — William S. Burroughs 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
“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. It cheapens and degrades the human… — Tom Waits 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
“When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the… — Chila Woychik 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
“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
The way the show was conceived originally and developed, has always had good writing at the heart of it, it's very difficult… — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
You can make bad writing 'OK,' but... you really need to start with a good script and with characters that are three-dimensional… — Corey Stoll Copy Share Image
“In his Comedy , Dante Alighieri names Virgil, with many tokens of respect, as his teacher, and yet as Herr Meinhard remarks,… — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns… — John Ciardi Copy Share Image
Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal… — Stephen King 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
“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
“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
“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
“Interviewer ...In the case of "American Psycho" I felt there was something more than just this desire to inflict pain--or that Ellis… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“This too to remember. If a man writes clearly enough any one can see if he fakes. If he mystifies to avoid… — Ernest Hemingway 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
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
“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
