Bad Writing Quotes

Bad Writing Quote of the day

It was one of the dullest speeches I ever heard. The Agee woman told us for three quarters of an hour how she came to write her beastly book, when a simple apology was all that was required.

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

Bad writing is not easier than good writing. It's just as hard to make a toilet seat as it is a castle window. Only the view is different.

A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing.

Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it.

I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting to make a collection of some of the worst writing by good writers.

Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious.

The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.

bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

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

It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

You can't improv off of bad writing. Then you have to actually create your objective, which is really hard to do in an element without the skeleton to go off of.

[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

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 studies, but I wouldn't blame it on any one methodology.

You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift.

I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

Somehow it seems to fill my head with ideas—only I don’t exactly know what they are!

A person who wrote badly did better than a person who does not write at all. A bad writing can be corrected. An empty page remains an empty page.

If a story is no good, being based on Hamlet won't save it.