Often with good sentiments we produce bad literature.
I've been wondering about Dostoyevsky. How can a man write so badly, so unbelievably badly, and make you feel so deeply?
I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.
The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.
I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing
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.
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.
Anyone may be an honorable man, and yet write verse badly.
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.
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.
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.
The very first song I ever wrote was called 'I See Between The Trees,' when I was 9. It was really bad.
Men will forgive a man anything except bad prose.
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'
One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.
You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.
Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.
[Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.
Bad writers are those who try to express their own feeble ideas in the language of good ones.
Summer in the trees! “It is time to strangle several bad poets.
Only bad writers think they're good.
There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.
