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I get up every day and work in the morning. I have my coffee and get to work. On good days I look up and… — George R. R. Martin
Writing, or at least good writing, is an outgrowth of that urge to use language to communicate complex ideas and experiences between people. And that's… — John Green
Good writers define reality; bad ones merely restate it. — Edward Albee
Only bad writers think that their work is really good. — Anne Enright
It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing. — Truman Capote
If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing. — Ray Bradbury
There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly inspired, only four… — John Kenneth Galbraith
If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good. — Steven Galloway
An abstract style is always bad. Your sentences should be full of stones, metals, chairs, tables, animals, men, and women. — Alain de Lille
I can speak of my own criterion for judging whether or not a book is good or bad. I ask of it a single question,… — Lawrence Clark Powell
A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's bad, success is… — E L Doctorow
It is with noble sentiments that bad literature gets written. — Andre Gide
Remember that 'plumber in space' is not such a bad setup for a story. — Stephen King
Don't tear up the page and start over again when you write a bad line-try to write your way out of it. Make mistakes and… — Garrison Keillor
As you recognize that you already own the wholeness you seek, and no one outside you can give you more than you already are, dysfunctional… — Alan Cohen
There's no in between-you're either good or bad. We were in between. — Gary Lineker
Playing against a defensive opponent is just as bad as making love to a tree. — Jorge Valdano
I've never made any picture, good or bad, without paying for it in emotional turmoil. — W. Eugene Smith
No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients,… — Joe McNally
As a young girl, I never felt attractive. I was fat and unhappy at times, and that kind of thinking stays with you your entire… — Kate Winslet

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