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title: "4 Wrote Terrible Quotes by 4 authors"
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> [I think I got serious about writing in the late '90s. The first stuff I wrote was terrible and got rejected, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/paul-g-tremblay/i-think-i-got-serious-about-writing-in-the-late-90s-the-first-stuff-i/)

[Paul G. Tremblay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/paul-g-tremblay/)

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> [“He wrote with terrible rapidity, the twig in his fingers rilling blood without renewal; but in the middle of a sentence his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ambrose-bierce/he-wrote-with-terrible-rapidity-the-twig-in-his-fingers-rilling-blood/)

[Ambrose Bierce](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ambrose-bierce/)

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> [I didn't pretend that I was good at writing music, so I wrote terrible music, intentionally. As time went on, the terrible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/c418/i-didn-t-pretend-that-i-was-good-at-writing-music-so-i-wrote-terrible/)

[C418](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/c418/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b85/c418-31011_good_i-didn-t-pretend-that-i-was-good-at-writ_1817374.jpg)

> [I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/seth-grahame-smith/i-wrote-one-terrible-manuscript-after-another-for-a-decade-and-i/)

[Seth Grahame-Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/seth-grahame-smith/)

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