Bad writing Quote by John Scalzi

“...you can't write well with only the nice parts of your character, and only about nice things. And I don't want even to try…

— Alison Lurie

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“Most of all, I think it was the novels that saved me from submission. I was young, but the first tiny, meek beginnings of…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“If you can create characters, devise incidents, and have sincerity and passion, it doesn't matter a damn how you write.”

— Somerset Maughn

“You know your characters are truly alive, when they start to write their own story and take you to places you didn't expect.”

— Joanne McDonnell

“And it's not that I'm a good writer. I found good characters. They tell me what to write, and thank God for that because…

— M.L. Gardner

“My characters tell me how they feel about other characters and events and they demand that I write it down for them.”

— Lindsay Marene Ordone

“I intend all my characters must escape from impossible situations; if they are not in trouble, then as a writer, I am.”

— Cleveland W. Gibson

“When I was young, I thought that I would live my life as freely as the writers and artists I took as my heroes.…

— Nicole Krauss

“I never wanted to write for writing alone, but for the story, for the characters, and most of all for the escape.”

— Kimberly Humphreys

“If you can’t be of good character, write a good character.”

— Rosen Trevithick