Ashamed Quote by Brenda Ueland

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

It's okay to be a bad writer if you have something to say.

— Bill Stott

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the…

— Garrison Keillor

If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must take an…

— William Zinsser

I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I admire them…

— Paul Sparks

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

Writers who sit down and write might judge what they're putting down, but I always just try to barf it out. I'm writing crap,…

— Kay Cannon

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

— Iris Johansen

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right…

— Lauren Tarshis

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was…

— C. S. Lewis

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

— Steven Bochco

Critics don't bother me because if I do badly, I know I'm bad before they even write it. And if I'm good, I know…

— Frank Sinatra