Bad thing Quote by Jakucho Setouchi

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

— Reif Larsen

I write my novels personally, desperately and non-negligently. When I write my novels, I think about my novels only, and never do other works.

— Haruki Murakami

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

— Dan Harmon

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

— Garrison Keillor

There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.

— Colson Whitehead

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting…

— William S. Burroughs

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

— Anne Enright

The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there…

— R. A. Lafferty

I can't lie and say there are no bad writers. Sorry, but there are lots of bad writers.

— Stephen King

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham