Bad writing Quote by Christopher Isherwood

Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

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

— Truman Capote

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

— Reif Larsen

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

I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more in literary…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

— Ezra Pound

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

— Tom Waits

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

I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there…

— Robert B. Parker

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

— Dan Harmon

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson