Bad writing Quote by Dorothy L. Sayers

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good…

— Patrick deWitt

Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Great books can be ruined by bad writers.”

— Travis Simmons

There are books full of great writing that don't have very good stories. Read sometimes for the story... don't be like the book-snobs who…

— Stephen King

“All writers are vain, selfish, and lazy, and at the very bottom of their motives there lies a mystery. Writing a book is a…

— George Orwell

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

— Raymond Chandler

“I read a lot of bad books- books so bad that they aren't even published,which is quite a feat, when you consider what is…

— Robert Harris

“If people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines that I could write stories just as rotten.”

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.

— George Orwell

“I know nothing of writing books properly. I write in the same manner I live life: one feeling at a time. If this makes…

— Cara Rosalie Olsen

“A real and admirable writer is the one who can write good books but can take criticisms better.”

— Nicholaa Spencer

“Writing is hard. Not as hard as not writing. Not writing is torturous, bloody, chaotic and a gruesome winless battle. A writer who writes,…

— Jamie Weise