Bad press Quote by Patti Smith

As nobody can possibly tell me whether one's writing is bad or good, the only certain value is one's own pleasure. I am sure…

— Virginia Woolf

I'm very flattered the press wants to write about me.

— Samuel Ervin Beam

I shall always feel respect for every one who has written a book, let it be what it may, for I had no idea…

— Charles Darwin

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

— Reif Larsen

I think the most important quality for a writer to have is empathy.

— Elizabeth Berg

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

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

The liberty of the press is a blessing when we are inclined to write against others, and a calamity when we find ourselves overborne…

— Samuel Johnson

When you publish something, it is very much as if you pulled your pants down in public. If what you have written is good,…

— Edna St. Vincent Millay

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

A lot of things that should not be written were written without checking with me, things that were not in good taste. That hurt…

— Mohammad Azharuddin

You may be somebody who writes best for a small press that doesn't pay very well, but you might have a fascinating and intricate…

— Alice Mattison

I'm not one who goes for the 'all press is good press' dictum.

— Jill Sobule