Bad example Quote by Juvenal

Setting too good an Example is a Kind of slander seldom forgiven.

— Benjamin Franklin

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

— Azar Nafisi

The writer is committed when he plunges to the very depths of himself with the intent to disclose, not his individuality, but his person…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

It's always hard for an author to determine his own intentions, especially in retrospect.

— Paul Kingsnorth

“A bad composition carries its own punishment—contempt and ridicule; a good one excites envy and entails upon its author a thousand mortifications; he finds…

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for…

— John Stuart Mill

“Can you think of a better way than slavishly copying and removing attribution to disrespect an author”

— Kalyan C. Kankanala

“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

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

— Steven Bochco

I don’t mind citing a bad author if the line is good.

— Seneca the Younger

I don't think one can write from a compromised moral position.

— W. G. Sebald