Top 1200 Bad Writing Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

People don't stress enough that when they're writing lyrics, they are writing.

My father always told me I should be a writer, and I found I loved writing my autobiography; writing is such an interesting process.

As you continue writing and rewriting, you begin to see possibilities you hadn't seen before. Writing a poem is always a process of discovery.

I chose law because writing was involved. I didn't realize how boring legal writing was, but I even learned to love that.

All writers have periods when they stop writing, when they cannot write, and this is always painful and terrible because writing is like breathing.

Roe v. Wade was bad law and bad medical science.

I do labor - it's part of the process. Writing is no easier today than it was in the beginning: writing well is very hard to do. Always.

I've spent most of my life writing and developing everything that I've wanted to be in - which is why I started writing in the first place.

The best advice I ever got came from my mother, Estee Lauder: She believed that if you had something good to say, you should put it in writing. But if you had something bad to say, you should tell the person to his or her face.

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided it's worth writing for women.

They ask me what I'm writing for - I'm writing to show you what we're fighting for.

Once I get my writing done, then I can turn my attention elsewhere - and not the other way around. The writing has to be the foundation.

Writing books isn't a drastic departure from writing for the stage.

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.

Nothing is wrong with you. You're not different. Everybody feels as bad as you do: this is just what writing a novel feels like. To write a novel is to come in contact with raw, primal feelings, hopes and longings and psychic wounds, and try to make a big public word-sculpture out of them, and that is a crazy hard thing to do.

I love writing fiction because I can totally lose myself and I get to make up the rules of the world that I'm writing.

In my writing classes, I don't outlaw any genre writing.

On the Internet, everyone is writing. There is a great flowering of writing.

A bad salesman will automatically drop his price. Bad salesmen make me sick.

When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of ideas that went on forever.

I started writing when I was around 6. I say 'writing,' but it was really just making up stuff! I started writing and doing my own thing. I didn't really know what a demo was or anything like that, so I started getting interested in studio gear and started learning about one instrument at a time. My first instrument was an accordion.

For the first couple of years I played really bad tennis. It was so bad that they booed me off the court.

Writing is a form of talking, although writing is such an odd thing in and of itself. People go about it in such different ways.

I have learned to avoid the coverage, good or bad - and it's mostly bad.

My job is to work at song writing and singing and telling the truth in song writing. My job is to be courageous enough to go on stage and tell the truth, the same truth that's gone into my song writing.

There is no such thing as bad luck in tennis. Just bad technique.

In a sense, journalism can be both helpful and detrimental to a writer of fiction because the kind of writing you need to do as a journalist is so different. It has to be clear, unambiguous, concise, and as a writer often you are trying to do things that are more ambiguous. I find that writing fiction is often an antidote to reading and writing too much journalism.

Writing is a sedentary gig unless one has a treadmill desk. But I have long believed writing and working out are complementary disciplines.

The best kind of writing, and the biggest thrill in writing, is to suddenly read a line from your typewriter that you didnt know was in you.

In reality the world is as full of bad mothers as it is of bad fathers, and it is not the motherless children who become delinquent but the fatherless ones.

I have always believed that writing advertisements is the second most profitable form of writing. The first, of course, is ransom notes.

I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.

Writing music is just like writing a book.

News writing and sports writing have become synonymous. And it started with, you know, free agency, and now it's in the concussion debate.

I tend to elongate the sentences as I'm writing and editing, and there is just something about the feeling of writing longhand that I really love.

As it was, things went from bad to worse, as they often will when amateurs are involved in an activity that they perform in bad temper – or in a hurry.

You start by writing to live. You end by writing so as not to die.

There is no way of writing well and also of writing easily.

What you learn from bad habits and in bad society, you will never forget, and it will be a lasting pang to you. I tell you in all sincerity, not as in the excitement of speech, but as I would confess and have confessed before God, I would give my right hand if I could forget that which I have learned in bad society.

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

The bad things don't seem to happen to bad people.' That's because they already did. There's no original evil left in the world.

Bipartisanship is really tough to achieve when everyone on both sides is left with a bad, bad taste in their mouths.

What is bad painting? Picabia made some deliberately bad paintings, but they were by him, so great in a way.

I have a weakness for anything savory or bad guys. Bad boys.

Old age is when you are not bothered with bad dreams, but with bad reality.

Got good news and bad news for you, Mr. President. The good news is that Chief Justice John Roberts just saved your legacy and, perhaps, your presidency by writing for the Supreme Court majority to rule health care reform constitutional.

When you are writing, of course, you have to do all that writing and correcting for yourself. When I was a librarian it was expected that I would know about a wide range of books.

The first writing of the human being was drawing, not writing.

We’re going to have good years again. Our bad years are not that bad. Take a school like Missouri. Our bad years are better than their good years. But we’ve created a standard.

Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.

There's certainly more new SF available than when I started writing. That means there's also more bad SF available. Whether there is also more good is a matter for future historians of the field.

Not-writing is a good deal worse than writing.

I've always been an all around creative person. Song writing and writing are great ways for me to express myself.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

I love a lot of American writers, but I think that for the most part the scope of what's accepted as great American writing is very limited. What we have is good, but it's limited. There's not enough engagement with the world. Our literature's not adventurous enough. The influence of MFA writing tends to make things repetitive. The idea that writing can be taught has changed the whole conversation in the U.S.

You can have a bad pass or a bad shot, but you need to do this to take the risk.

What's the challenge in writing a novel that few people will read? I'm more than happy writing what I do and have no plans to change that.

Now you know you're going to have to play music for the label, you know you're going to have to get an opinion from the manager. Now, I'm so much more conscious and it bothers me. I try to find my way back to writing without being too analytical or not thinking about whether this is good or is it bad.

Through all this other stuff I was doing, I always went back to the writing, and it was writing that made me feel whole, complete.

When a man's partner is killed he's supposed to do something about it. It doesn't make any difference what you thought of him. He was your partner and you're supposed to do something about it. Then it happens we were in the detective business. Well, when one of your organization gets killed it's bad business to let the killer get away with it. It's bad all around-bad for that one organization, bad for every detective everywhere. Sam Spade