Write Badly Quotes

13 quotes by 12 authors

One thing that helps is to give myself permission to write badly. I tell myself that I'm going to do my five or 10 pages… — Lawrence Block
You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've got… — Tony Grisoni
When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of they're… — Robert McKee
Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better. — Jennifer Egan
There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly. — Israel Zangwill
It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television. — Andy Rooney
You have to write badly to write at all. If it's crappy, I will rewrite it later. But it will be mine. You can hear… — Kathy Mattea
Most thinkers write badly, because they communicate not only their thoughts, but also the thinking of them. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that… — Jennifer Egan
You have to write badly in order to write well. — William Faulkner
We all have time to write. We have time to write the minute we are willing to write badly, to chase a dead end, to… — Julia Cameron
There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they… — Blaise Pascal
I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live. — Francoise Sagan

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