Art Quote by Kathy Mattea

“You can only write regularly if you're willing to write badly. You can't write regularly and well. One should accept bad writing as a…

— Jennifer Egan

I shall live badly if I do not write, and I shall write badly if I do not live.

— Francoise Sagan

You've got to write badly. If you write badly at least you've got something to rewrite. If you're scared to write badly, then you've…

— Tony Grisoni

But I can also write in crappy motel rooms, while standing in line, or sitting in the dentist's chair.

— Augusten Burroughs

You have to surrender to your mediocrity, and just write. Because it's hard, really hard, to write even a crappy book. But it's better…

— Cheryl Strayed

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

There never was an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill

The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.

— Gloria Vanderbilt

It's not so much that I write well, I just don't write badly very often and that passes for good on television.

— Andy Rooney

“It's good to write badly. Things can only get better.”

— Alan Dapre

I can handle a bad story better than anybody as long as it's true and, you know, over a course of time, I'll make…

— Donald Trump

There never was such an age in which so many people were able to write badly.

— Israel Zangwill

We're [writers] all afraid of writing badly, and there are psychological reasons, like the bad interior of ourselves is somehow being revealed, but we…

— Jennifer Egan

Be willing and unafraid to write badly, because often the bad stuff...forms a base on which to build something better.

— Jennifer Egan

Those who write as they speak, even though they speak well, write badly.

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon