Mediocre Work Quotes

Ninety percent of SF [science fiction] is crud, but then, ninety percent of everything is crud.

I just want to continue to produce good work. I don't want to do junk.

One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write a whole number of bad books. Books that don't work, mediocre books, or there's a whole bunch of people in the pulp tradition who have done that. They just wrote... and actually they didn't write a whole bunch of books, they just wrote one book many times.

The original version of 'The White Mountains' was probably just about worth publishing.

I had read enough mediocre scripts and was determined not to inflict another one on the world.

The '90s weren't my finest years artistically. I wrote some good songs in there, but in terms of my vision of getting the paint on the canvas, that was not my best time. I didn't like the fact that I had fallen into mediocrity.

A lot of praise is given to very mediocre work. Critics have lost their taste, hearing, and eyesight.

Most peoples work ethnic tends to be OK, but not fantastic.

If you pay peanuts, you get monkeys.

Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.

There's too much bad. The worst is mediocre. Bad is easy. There's high quality, there's pornography, and then there's bad.

What you do for money you do badly.