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• It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing. — Truman Capote
• Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. — Jacques Barzun
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• 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
• I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing — Stephen King
• A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing. — Don Roff
• Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal… — Stephen King
• 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
• Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious. — P.D. James
• It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting. — Adam Brody

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