Internet Quote by Peter Greenaway

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

— Truman Capote

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

— Reif Larsen

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

— Francis Spufford

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

— William Zinsser

There is something unwholesome and destructive about the entire writing process.

— Joy Williams

I'm nervous about our civic culture. I'm not sure the Internet is largely the cause of it. It's certainly the cause of careless writing.…

— Antonin Scalia

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

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

— James Salter

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

— Christopher Isherwood

Your worst enemy as a writer - especially one working online a lot of the time - is obscurity.

— Ryan North

Good writing is deceptive in that it hides its own artifice - it makes it seem easy.

— Michael Arndt

I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more in literary…

— Martha C. Nussbaum