Awkwardness Quote by Elizabeth Hardwick

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

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 writing is often about trying to investigate something you feel is missing and trying to put it back.

— Abi Morgan

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

— Anonymous

“Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories…

— Stephen King

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

— Reif Larsen

Good writing is almost the concomitant of good history. Literature and history were joined long since by the powers which shaped the human brain;…

— C. V. Wedgwood

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

— Truman Capote

There's so much to learn in writing and in life, and in any particular era in one's life, it seems like a few concerns…

— Sheila Heti

Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell…

— Stephen King

For me, writing has always come out of living a fairly to-the-bone kind of life, just really being present to a lot of life.…

— Alice Walker

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg