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Bad Writing Quotes (page 5)

If an intelligent, educated, and healthy man begins to complain of his lot and go down-hill, there is nothing for him to do but to go on down until he reaches the bottom--there is no hope for him. Where could my salvation come from? How can I save myself? I cannot drink, because it makes my head ache. I never could write bad poetry. I cannot pray for strength and see anything lofty in the languor of my soul. Laziness is laziness and weakness weakness. I can find no other names for them. I am... Anton Chekhov
One of the really bad things you can do to your writing is to dress up the vocabulary, looking for long words because you're maybe a little bit ashamed of your short ones. This is like dressing up a household pet in evening clothes. The pet is embarrassed and the person who committed this act of premeditated cuteness should be even more embarrassed. Stephen King
Marcus Tullius Cicero quote: "Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and..."
Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book. Marcus Tullius Cicero
Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Penny, why don't you write a play about Ism-Mania? Penny Sycamore: Ism-Mania? Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Yeah, sure, you know, Communism, Faschism, Voodoo-ism, everybody's got an -ism these days. Penny Sycamore: Oh [laughs] Penny Sycamore: I thought it was some kind of itch or something. Grandpa Martin Vanderhoff: Well, it's just as catching. When things go a little bad nowadays, you go out, get yourself an -ism and you're in business. George S. Kaufman
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sakes. Now, I mean, I'm talking about singing in the shower, I'm talking about dancing to the radio, I'm talking about writing a poem to a friend--a lousy poem. Kurt Vonnegut
Ralph Waldo Emerson quote: "People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad."
People do not deserve good writing, they are so pleased with bad. Ralph Waldo Emerson
F. Scott Fitzgerald quote: "Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written."
Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written. F. Scott Fitzgerald
I was such a foolish girl - girls are foolish, Mr. Satterthwaite. They are so sure of themselves, so convinced they know best. People write and talk a lot of a ‘woman’s instinct.’ I don’t believe, Mr. Satterthwaite, that there is any such thing. There doesn’t seem to be anything that warns girls against a certain type of man. Nothing in themselves, I mean. Their parents warn them, but that’s no good - one doesn’t believe. It seems dreadful to say so, but there is something attractive to a... Agatha Christie
Moby quote: "I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the..."
I'm like a bad musical cliche because I bring my guitar on the road and try to write songs in hotel rooms. Moby
I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels. Stephenie Meyer
Aldous Huxley quote: "A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it..."
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Aldous Huxley
Well, yes, as I was a rather bad actor then and I wasn't making enough money, I thought, to make enough money to not make money as an actor, I'd better do some writing. Val Guest
Zane Grey quote: "I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented..."
I did not have one bad spell during writing - an unprecedented record. Zane Grey
Julien Green quote: "Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find..."
Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write. Julien Green
I have terrible handwriting. I now say it's a learning disability... but a nun who was a very troubled woman hit me over the fingers with a ruler because my writing was so bad. Andrew Greeley

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