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  • It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting. -- Adam Brody
  • I think finally good writing gets out there, and people like it, and bad writing doesn't. Well, no. Bad writing does get out there 'cause some people like it. -- Robert B. Parker
  • You start realizing that good prose is crunchy. There's texture in your mouth as you say it. You realize bad writing, bland writing, has no texture, no taste, no corners in your mouth. I'm a great believer in reading aloud. -- Janet Fitch
  • I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing -- Stephen King
  • It takes a lot of bad writing to get to a little good writing. -- Truman Capote
  • A day of bad writing is always better than a day of no writing. -- Don Roff
  • bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it -- Charles Bukowski
  • There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing. -- Ernest Hemingway
  • The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering. -- Tom Waits
  • Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesnâ??t make you good. Writing badly does. -- Dan Harmon
  • Don't apologize, justify or rationalize bad art or bad writing. If you do, you are part of it. -- Walter Darby Bannard
  • [Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people. -- James Ellroy
  • There's no bad writing; you did something. I was operating inside language, and I did something. I'm not ashamed of it. -- Aleksandar Hemon
  • 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. -- Robert McKee
  • 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. -- Stephen Spender
  • Every reader of the Dreiser novels must cherish astounding specimens--of awkward, platitudinous marginalia, of whole scenes spoiled by bad writing, of phrases as brackish as so many lumps of sodium hyposulphite. -- H. L. Mencken
  • 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. -- Eliza Coupe
  • You cant 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. -- Eliza Coupe
  • I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable. -- Elizabeth Hardwick
  • 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. -- William S. Burroughs
  • It's difficult to write a really good short story because it must be a complete and finished reflection of life with only a few words to use as tools. There isn't time for bad writing in a short story. -- Edna Ferber
  • The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act. -- Trey Parker
  • Bad writing is more than a matter of shit syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do? to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street." -- Stephen King
  • Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street. -- Stephen King
  • Think 'Game of Thrones.' In the old days, this sort of show might be considered bad writing. It doesn't really seem to be moving toward a crisis or climax, it has no true protagonist, and it's structured less like a TV show or a movie than a soap opera. -- Douglas Rushkoff
  • I'm really bad at writing jokes. -- Glenn Howerton
  • Writing is hard work and bad for the health. -- E. B. White
  • I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record. -- Zane Grey
  • I'm terrible at story and structure, but I'm not so bad at writing dialogue. -- Steve Buscemi
  • I think it's a very bad idea for someone to start writing for a readership. -- Joshua Ferris
  • Usually if you read a screenplay, no matter who's writing it, the bad guy is always written as a one-dimensional bad guy. -- Mickey Rourke
  • You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad. -- Moran Atias
  • I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels. -- Patrick White
  • I'm very bad at delegating writing responsibilities, because I've never been able to do it; I've never had any help or looked for any help. -- Michael Hirst
  • Good critical writing is measured by the perception and evaluation of the subject; bad critical writing by the necessity of maintaining the professional standing of the critic. -- Raymond Chandler
  • Writing music is such a freeing exercise, and it's really nice to play in that world of being confident, vengeful - getting back at all the bad boyfriends. -- Gin Wigmore
  • Schools are really bad now. Schools are not only bad in reading, writing and arithmetic, they're worse in cultural aspects, like in music and art. They don't teach you anything. -- John Kricfalusi
  • For what I wrote that started this whole controversy, I deserved to be criticized, and I felt bad about writing it. I felt bad mainly as a writer and a thinker. -- Gregg Easterbrook
  • Writing stopped being fun when I discovered the difference between good writing and bad and, even more terrifying, the difference between it and true art. And after that, the whip came down. -- Truman Capote
  • In general, I think writing characters, no one is 100 percent good or bad, and certainly, the bad characters never think they're bad themselves. Even the worst characters don't feel like they're bad guys on the inside. -- Darren Star
  • I started writing prose before I started writing television. Then 'Breaking Bad' came around, and to me, writing 'Breaking Bad' is like writing a novel each season. So it's been very creatively satisfying writing for the show. -- George Mastras
  • We all are who we are. We're not necessarily good, and we're not necessarily bad. So much television, in the writing, is so one-dimensional, in that aspect, where you have your good guys and you have your bad guys. -- Kyle Schmid
  • Most things good for writing are bad for life. -- Lorrie Moore
  • Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious. -- P. D. James
  • You can't fake it. Bad writing is a gift. -- Richard Le Gallienne
  • Reading stories is bad enough but writing them is worse. -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
  • People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Our bad luck is that our writing is linear, while we think circularly. -- Zygmunt Bauman
  • Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published. -- Jacques Barzun
  • It takes writing a billion bad words before you get to the good ones. -- Ray Bradbury
  • Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. -- Cicero
  • Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. -- Cicero
  • It's precisely on the Internet that the majority of the writing is terribly bad and uninteresting. -- Peter Greenaway
  • I began writing poetry when I was about 10. Bad poetry, but you start with bad poetry. -- Jonas Mekas
  • Your writing is never as good as you hoped; but never as bad as you feared. -- Bertrand Russell
  • I'm fond of online testimonials: people writing about their experiences with ghosts or drugs or bad boyfriends. -- Michael Dumontier
  • When the loo paper gets thicker and the writing paper thinner, it's always a bad sign, at home. -- Nancy Mitford
  • Outlines are the last resource of bad fiction writers who wish to God they were writing masters' theses. -- Stephen King
  • If I start writing a song and you try to have a conversation with me, you're a bad person. -- Halsey
  • Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent. -- Robert Hass
  • You can't be a good person when you're writing and a bad person to your husband or a bad friend. -- Ann Patchett
  • I always was intrigued with writing my own stuff, and I was always really bad at learning other people's stuff. -- DJ Ashba
  • Bad writing is bad not just because the language is humdrum, but the quality of the observation is so poor. -- Christopher Isherwood
  • 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
  • When you are writing a song for something else, if you are doing something for money, I always think that's bad luck. -- Chad Kroeger
  • My idea of what's good and bad and right and wrong is maybe greyer than most, and I like writing about that. -- Shaun Cassidy
  • I ended up writing songs by taking stock of all the different events in my life, but all those songs were bad. -- Owen Pallett
  • If you write a hundred short stories and they're all bad, that doesn't mean you've failed. You fail only if you stop writing. -- Ray Bradbury
  • The most important thing in writing is to have written. I can always fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one. -- Nora Roberts
  • To George Gershwin, on refusinghim as a pupil: You would only lose the spontaneous quality of your melody, and end by writing bad Ravel. -- Maurice Ravel
  • The physical business of writing is unpleasant to me, but the psychic satisfaction of discharging bad ideas in worse English makes me forget it. -- H. L. Mencken
  • The best friend a man can have is reading and writing, and the bad ones to avoid are Go and chess and flute and pipe. -- Hojo Soun
  • On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad thing. -- Neil Gaiman
  • I write every day. Even if I'm not writing well, I write through it. I can fix a bad page. I can't fix a blank one. -- Nora Roberts
  • It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. -- Isabel Colegate
  • 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 of that. -- Virginia Woolf
  • Some say writing is its own reward. I write for money, but writing for money is not so bad, especially when that writing brings you joy. -- Eloisa James
  • I feel quite at home writing short stories but nervous and anxious when writing novels, as if the bad time of consecutive failures might arise again. -- Charles Baxter
  • Sometimes I write, but once it's done, I usually find my writing to be so bad that I hide it somewhere and never look at it again. -- Gideon Glick
  • 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. -- Ben Hecht
  • I honestly feel like we never had a bad episode by TV standards. Every week I felt there were so many strong components of the show, especially the writing. -- Donal Logue
  • The newspaper is, in fact, very bad for one's prose style. That's why I gravitated towards feature stories where you get a little more leeway in the writing style. -- Tom Wolfe
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