Top 1200 Bad Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

When you're writing for a show, you're writing part of the script. You have to tell the story.

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.

Everything can be brought to the extreme. Food is good, overeating is bad. Possessions are good, hoarding is bad. Guilt is good, obsessing about guilt is bad. But I think guilt is good because I'm like, "Hey, I just stabbed that guy and I feel pretty good."

I don't find writing for the theater that different from writing a rock song.

I started writing after college, slowly, secretly writing.

'A Fair Maiden' existed in notes and sketches for perhaps a year. When I traveled, I would take along with me my folder of notes - 'ideas for stories.' Eventually, I began to write it and wrote it fairly swiftly - in perhaps two months of fairly intense writing and rewriting. Most of my time writing is really re-writing.

In teaching writing, I'm learning new things about writing.

Bad thing about playing at Alabama? I really didn't have any bad moments.

I guess I've learned that there's really no such thing as a bad label, there is only a bad contract.

Well, I've always been a character actor, you know, and you always get your share of character actors who are bad guys. So it never surprises me. And if it's good writing, you can find your way into the part well enough.

Writing reminds you that you're never alone. Writing and reading is to be optimistic.

You know how bad my voice sounds - well it feels just as bad.

I look at scripts as good or bad. If it's bad, it better pay a lot of money.

If you're convinced that you face bad options, then by all means take the least bad.

I'm writing my biography. It's my business. This is what happened in my life, and I'm writing about it.

Simple version for me is, umm, started bad and finished bad basically.

Most comic scriptwriters are very bad. The artists are good, but the writers are so bad.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

The point always is to be writing something - it leads to more writing.

I liked to write from the time I was about 12 or 13. I loved to read. And since I only spoke to my brother, I would write down my thoughts. And I think I wrote some of the worst poetry west of the Rockies. But by the time I was in my 20s, I found myself writing little essays and more poetry - writing at writing.

Fantasy is my genre and my home in the writing world. I consider it the biggest writing room in all literature, where there are literally no boundaries at all.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

Writing must certainly be one of the hardest professions - writing and painting.

When I'm writing for Esquire, my conscious thought is, I'm not writing for American Scholar.

Yes, writing is not easy. But can any writer imagine NOT writing?

Television is making, there was in independent film renaissance late '80s through the mid-90's. It was an amazing time. Television is doing that right now. So that's why everybody wants to do it. I mean if you're writing stuff like, you know, Fargo, or True Detective, or any of these things that are on, Breaking Bad, there are no rules in television.

And I love writing; I've been writing ever since I was seven.

I was writing and cartooning and writing short stories from grade school on.

I'm more interested in the writing than in the content per se (good writing can be about wallpaper and I'll devour it).

Never mistake talking about writing for actual writing.

Writing dialogue is like writing a song, which I've done.

Keep a bad drawing until by study you have found out why it is bad.

I came to Hollywood originally writing comedy and writing satire.

The writing that I have found to be most false is the writing that doesn't offer hope.

There is a difference between writing and being an author. Authors talk. I'm standing here talking now. This has nothing to do with writing.

Music's always part of my writing. I think all art is interconnected. You can't create or experience one without its influences bleeding into another. In my writing, music's mostly something that feeds my inspiration and mood while I'm writing, but it's also taught me how to score scenes and even novels. The rise and fall of the storyline echoes the flow of a good piece of music.

I know there's a lot of competition in the world of magazines and newspapers and we have to make headlines and be sensational and sell, and saying bad things about me is going to sell more papers than writing good things about me.

Things are as bad as you fear they are. People are as bad as you think they are. The Universe does not care.

I don't want to write poems that are just really clear about how I'm aware of all the traps involved in writing poetry; I don't want to write fiction that's about the irresponsibility of writing fiction and I've thrown out a lot of writing that I think was ultimately tainted by that kind of self-awareness.

I've always been a fan of plain writing. I hate metaphor-laden, heavily larded, lyrical writing.

I try to sort of make myself emotional in the moment when I'm writing, and that always translates better. When I'm writing, I can't do abstract.

When I'm writing, sometimes it gets to that place where I feel like the piece is writing itself and I'm trying not to get in the way

Writing for me, even what you call serious writing, is play.

Writing is possibly an art, but crime writing is definitely a craft.

writing about a writer's block is better than not writing at all

I think there are a lot of similarities between writing and music. Music is much more direct and much more emotional and that's the level I want to be at when I'm writing. Writing is much more intellectual and indirect and abstract, in a way.

The concept of 'Bad Magic' is something that is incredibly intoxicating and magical but ultimately bad for you.

I've had some bad reviews, but not as bad as the things I could imagine for myself.

Writing tonal music now, you are not writing into the 19th Century.

I feel like the criticism and bad stuff don't come unless I'm playing bad.

I have experienced bad dating and ineptitude with women all across the globe, from Vietnam to Paris. When I was 21, women were an enigma; they were this code that had to be cracked. They were 'The Other.' I have often thought writing this stuff into stand-up and shows would be an exorcism, but it hasn't been; it makes no difference.

The 21st Century should be India's century but from 2004 to 2014 bad ideas and bad actions have affected the country adversely. Every day was a new bad day and there were new scandals. People were furious.

I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

I do not think you should read about writing while you are writing.

You know, I can imagine not writing a novel and writing poetry only.

Nothing truly bad happens. There's always good and bad in any changes.

Writing is such a powerful tool. I believe everyone should be writing.

Never fear the truth. No bad can come of discussing a true subject. No bad at all.