Bad writing Quote by Ben Hecht

It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing.

— Truman Capote

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt

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

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

— Christopher Isherwood

Good writing is like a windowpane.

— George Orwell

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

— Joyce Carol Oates

Writing can wreck your body. You sit there on the chair hour after hour and sweat your guts out to get a few words.

— Norman Mailer

Writing is the art of applying the ass to the seat.

— Dorothy Parker

The only bad days as a writer are the ones when you are too cowardly or too lazy to sit down at the keyboard…

— Chris Cleave

not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse.

— Charles Bukowski

Writing can come naturally to some. Still, when it comes to good writing, this is true: Easy reading is damn hard writing.

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Good writing happens when human beings follow particular steps to take control of their sentences-to make their words do what they want them to…

— Ralph Fletcher