Bad writing Quote by Will Shetterly Download Open image “It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.” — Will Shetterly ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bad writing Book Firsts Inspirational Love Novelists Science fiction Versions Writing Writing children's books
“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.” — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
You should write first drafts as if they will never be shown to anyone. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Every first draft is perfect, because all a first draft has to do is exist. — Jane Smiley Copy Share Image
You write that first draft really to see how it's going to come out. — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
Just start scribbling. The first draft is never your last draft. Nothing you write is by accident. — Guy Garvey Copy Share Image
I see myself as a first-draft writer, so when I sit down to write something, the first draft is usually pretty close to the… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
My first drafts are always terrible, and I hate them, but the process for me is all about writing the bad version until it… — Jesse Andrews Copy Share Image
A writer must have all the confidence in the world when writing the first draft and none whatsoever when editing subsequent drafts. — T. Davis Bunn Copy Share Image
There are no rules in writing. There are useful principles. Throw them away when they're not useful. But always know what you're throwing away. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Moving around is good for creativity: the next line of dialogue that you desperately need may well be waiting in the back of the… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Is art influential? It can be - 'Uncle Tom's Cabin' rallied abolitionists, and 'The Jungle' provoked the demand for a safer food industry. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
The great thing about revision is that it's your opportunity to fake being brilliant. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
There've always been people in the borderland between childhood and adulthood. That state is not a matter of chronological age. It's a matter of… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Politics is a dirty business, but if you do not do politics, politics will be done to you. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
In fantasy, impossible things exist. In science fiction, impossible things exist and can be understood by humans. In supernatural horror, impossible things exist and… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Many elitists hate rap as much as they hate country, though they don't like to admit it for fear of appearing racially insensitive. — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Country music, the music of the white rural working class, has often been mocked by elitists whose understanding of power and art was shaped… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“It is better to write a bad first draft than no first draft at all.” — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
Unless you're writing for a humorous effect, elves or space aliens and all creatures who aren't human should at least be as strange as,… — Will Shetterly Copy Share Image
“Except in stock locutions, such as "You were paid yesterday," "The Germans were defeated," or "The project was abandoned," the passive voice is virtually… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
“There is one surefire way to produce bad writing: submit to the slavery of a deadline.” — Flavia Idà Copy Share Image
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second. — Rachel Bloom Copy Share Image
“A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does. — Dan Harmon Copy Share Image
“Is this a case of “Do as I say, not as I do?” The reader has a perfect right to ask the question, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
The way the show was conceived originally and developed, has always had good writing at the heart of it, it's very difficult to be… — Denis Lawson Copy Share Image
