Best Bad Writing Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Because I want to have sex with him--and because that's sinful--I'm blushing and flushing furiously under his scrutinizing scrutiny.”

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Author:Jess C. Scott

“Even a piece of bad writing can have its own mysterious life, and be a fascination.”

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Book:Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

Source: Straw for the Fire: From the Notebooks of Theodore Roethke

“I’ve always felt an almost physical loathing for secret things--intrigues, diplomacy, secret societies, occult sciences. What especially irks me are these last two things--the pretension certain men have that, through their understandings with Gods or Masters or Demiurges, they and they alone know the great secrets on which the world is founded. I can’t believe their claims, though I can believe someone else might. But is there any reason why all these people might not be crazy or deluded? The fact there are a lot of them proves nothing, for there are collective hallucinations. What really shocks me is how these wizards and masters of the invisible, when they write to communicate or intimate their mysteries, all write abominably. It offends my intelligence that a man can master the Devil without being able to master the Portuguese language. Why should dealing with demons be easier than dealing with grammar?”

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Book:The Book of Disquiet

Source: The Book of Disquiet

“Every day, writing. No matter how bad. Something will come.”

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Book:The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath

“I think I just pissed on myself,” he mutters.”

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Book:Ugly Love

Source: Ugly Love

“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.”

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Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“You can't be a good writer in the States anymore... Because to be a good one you have to have a country where you can be poor and still eat, and still make your living standards secondary to your writing. Thoreau himself couldn't do that in the States today... (Sept. 1953 letter to Millen Brand)”

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Author:Nelson Algren

“I believe it was Thursday; my last memory was Tuesday night, and I did not use to die more than two days in a row.”

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Book:A Story of Yesterday

Source: A Story of Yesterday

“Min Herres behagelige Sendebrev af 27de Dag udi Glugmaanet, (a) haver jeg den anden Dag af Blidemaaned (b) bekommet. Min Herre forlanger at vide hvordan Tilstanden nu omstunder er ved Academiet, om man tilkommende Sommer kand vente, at see nogen, at blive ophøyed paa Doctor-Trappen, (c) enten udi den Guddommelige Kundskab (d), udi de verdslige Love, (e) eller udi Lægekunsten (f). Min Herre ønsker ogsaa at vide, hvor mange Mestere af Verdens Viisdom (g) i Fior bleve skabte (h), hvor mange Laurbærkronede Personer (i), Item, hvo dette Aar er Rector og Decanus, det er den høye Skoles Forstander og den verdslige Viisdoms Høvidsmand, iligemaade, hvad Nyt som ellers er forefaldet udi den lærde Fristad (k). (a) Januario.(b) Februario.(c) Doctor-Graden.(d) Theologien.(e) Injure.(f) Medicinen.(g) Magistri Philosophiae.(h) Creerede.(i) Baccalaurei.(k) Republica literaria.”

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Book:Epistler

Source: Epistler

“When reading a book, one hopes it doesn’t turn into a painful process. Predictable is bad enough. Laborious is acceptable if the labor produces fruit. But with painfully bad writing, all one can do is grab a hatchet, slice off its head, and bury it.”

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Book:On Being a Rat and Other Observations

Source: On Being a Rat and Other Observations

“Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better.”

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Author:Richelle E. Goodrich

“(Slap) “Owhhh … ” Raymond yelled as the Old Man’s cane hit his face.”

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Author:Judy Byington

“Lightlark was a shining, cliffy thing.”

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Book:Lightlark

Source: Lightlark

“I wanted to let go, drop him, anything to get him out of my arms.”

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Book:The Compound

Source: The Compound

“I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.”

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

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Author:Walter Darby Bannard

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

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Author:Christopher Isherwood

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

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Author:Dan Harmon

“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.”

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Author: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.”

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Author:Elizabeth Hardwick

“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.”

Writing Stories Use Difficult Reflection Tools Finished Short Story Few Words Bad Writing Reflections Of Life

Author:Edna Ferber

“There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.”

Writing Left Good And Bad Left And Right Bad Writing

Book:Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

Source: Ernest Hemingway Selected Letters 1917-1961

“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.”

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Book:A book of prefaces

Source: A book of prefaces

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

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Author:Richard Le Gallienne

“Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.”

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Author:Pankaj Mishra

“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.”

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Author:Ben Hecht

“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.”

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Author:Robert McKee

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

Writing Language Ashamed Bad Writing

Author:Aleksandar Hemon

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

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Author:James Ellroy

“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.”

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Author:Martha C. Nussbaum

“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.”

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Author:Trey Parker

“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was. If you can get so that you can give that to people, then you are a writer.”

“Read, read, read. Read everything -- trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.”

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Author:William Faulkner

“Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.”

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

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Book:Tales of Ordinary Madness

Source: Tales of Ordinary Madness

“The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.”

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Author:Tom Waits

“Like everyone else, I am going to die. But the words - the words live on for as long as there are readers to see them, audiences to hear them. It is immortality by proxy. It is not really a bad deal, all things considered.”

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Author:J. Michael Straczynski

“If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.”

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Author:Edgar Rice Burroughs

“A good novel tells us the truth about its hero; but a bad novel tells us the truth about its author.”

“The test of any good fiction is that you should care something for the characters; the good to succeed, the bad to fail. The trouble with most fiction is that you want them all to land in hell, together, as quickly as possible.”

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Author:Mark Twain

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

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Author:Truman Capote

“Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.”

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Author:Jacques Barzun

“It is better to write a bad first draft than to write no first draft at all.”

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Author:Will Shetterly

“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.”

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Author:Stephen Spender

“I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.”

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Book:On Writing

Source: On Writing

“If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.”

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Author:John Ciardi

“Bad acting, like bad writing, has a remarkable uniformity, whether seen on the French, German, or English stages; it all seems modeled after two or three types, and those the least like types of good acting. The fault generally lies less in the bad imitation of a good model, than in the successful imitation of a bad model.”

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Book:On Actors and the Art of Acting

Source: On Actors and the Art of Acting

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

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Author:Stephen King

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

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Author:Don Roff

“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.”

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Author:Stephen King

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