Bad idea Quote by Michael Moorcock

You can't be a good writer without being a good thinker.

— Andy Rooney

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

The idea is not enough. And the most annoying thing for me as a writer is that people will come up to me and…

— Irvine Welsh

We have to think bigger as writers. We have to try and change the world.

— Larry Kramer

For me, a writer should be more like a lighthouse keeper, just out there by himself. He shouldn't get his ideas from other people…

— Robert M. Pirsig

I don't think of myself as a writer.

— James Patterson

I think of myself just as a writer.

— The-Dream

It's always been hard to call myself a writer. I think a part of me still thinks it's too good to be true.

— Sarah Dessen

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

— Aaron Eckhart

Coming up with the idea is the worst part of writing for me.

— Megan Chance

If you don't allow yourself the possibility of writing something very, very bad, it would be hard to write something very good.

— Steven Galloway

I'm not a very good writer. I'm working at it.

— Henry Rollins