Bad writing Quote by Martha C. Nussbaum

We can never know that a piece of writing is bad unless we have begun by trying to read it as if it was…

— C. S. Lewis

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

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

— Truman Capote

Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor.

— Christopher Isherwood

“Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious." [ Ten rules for writing fiction , The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with Diana Athill,…

— P. D. James

I think that writers are best served by sticking to their writing. Not having loads of theories about the best way to position the…

— Hilton Als

“Second, writing is dangerous for philosophy—and for serious scholarly practice in general. It’s not because writing breaks from its origins as Plato would have…

— Ian Bogost

I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully…

— Elizabeth Hardwick

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

— Reif Larsen

We writers don't really think about whether what we write is good or not. It's too much to worry about. We just put the…

— Garrison Keillor

No writing is good that does not tend to better mankind in some way or other.

— Alexander Pope

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

— Georg C. Lichtenberg