Bad Quote by Elif Batuman Download Open image “No time you spend writing will be wasted - even if you write something that's bad.” — Elif Batuman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad Something Time Will Writing
I don't think you have time to waste not writing because you are afraid you won't be good at it. — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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If you write your best, even if you have to throw it out later, it's not wasted effort. You're getting better. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have a great many shortcomings, but writing for something on time has never bothered me. — Andre Previn Copy Share Image
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not writing is not good but trying to write when you can't is worse. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Writing is like travelling. It's wonderful to go somewhere, but you get tired of staying. — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
My parents were born into a secular country. They met in Turkey's top medical school, moved to America in the nineteen-seventies, and became researchers… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I leafed through the phrase book. If a Martian read it, the Martian would probably decide to avoid Hungary.” — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
You can't invent something you have no epistemological access to. In a way, it's all recombination. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Poetry is another space, like love, where we extend that extra credit to the writer. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
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One of the most painful parts of a breakup is having the feeling that your life is a story, and then the other person… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Dracula visited the Wolf Department at the Zoological Gardens. "These wolves seem upset at something," he observed. The next morning the cage was all… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
I like to think that I know a lot of words, but I definitely don't know all of them. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“I don't know if I ended up siding with the academics just because I happened to end up in graduate school, or if I… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
“Each work of criticism is supposed to build on the body of work, to increase the total sum of human understanding. It's not like… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
Humor is really important to me. All my favorite writers are writers I consider to be funny, including Tolstoy and Dostoevsky, even though that's… — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
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One thing I always tell players is that there are three bad things: Nothing good happens after midnight, nothing good happens when you're around… — Nick Saban Copy Share Image
Everybody has bad days, but how you respond to it is a testament to whether you are a winner or a loser. — Aaron Gordon Copy Share Image
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