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• Bad writing, it is easily verified, has never kept scholarship from being published.

  Jacques Barzun

  Writing, Scholarship

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• Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

  Stephen King

  Writing, People, Syntax

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• I am committed to writing appropriate books for the middle grades. This means no bad language, no gratuitous or explicit violence, and no sexual content beyond what you might find in a PG-rated movie – expressions of who likes whom, holding hands, and perhaps the occasional kiss. The idea that we should treat sexual orientation itself as an adults-only topic, however, is absurd. Non-heterosexual children exist. To pretend they do not, to fail to recognize that they have needs for support and validation like any child, would be bad teaching, bad writing, and bad citizenship.

  Rick Riordan

  Children, Book, Teaching

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• The story of Jesus makes no sense to me. God sent his only son. Why could God only have one son and why would he have to die? It's just bad writing, really. And it's really terrible in about the second act.

  Trey Parker

  Jesus, Writing, Son

  "Secrets of 'South Park'" by Jake Tapper and Dan Morris, abcnews.go.com. September 22, 2006.

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• bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it

  Charles Bukowski

  Writing, Bad Woman, Can Do

  Charles Bukowski (2013). “Tales of Ordinary Madness”, p.131, City Lights Books

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• I'm convinced that FEAR is at the root, of all bad writing

  Stephen King

  Writing, Roots, Airborne

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• I'm struggling at the end to get out of the valley of hectoring youth, journalistic middle age, imposture, moneymaking, public relations, bad writing, mental confusion.

  Stephen Spender

  Struggle, Writing, Confusion

  "Journals 1939-1983". Book by Stephen Spender, 1986.

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• 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.

  William S. Burroughs

  Writing, Thinking, Order

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• It's bad writing, however naturalistic it's written, that's where you have to do your best acting.

  Adam Brody

  Writing, Acting, Written

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• 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.

  H. L. Mencken

  Writing, Awkward, Sodium

  H.L. Mencken (1917). “A book of prefaces”, p.86, Рипол Классик

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• I have come to the belief that there is not merely an accidental relationship between bad writing and routine sociological research, but a wonderfully pure, integral relationship; the awkwardness is necessary and inevitable.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Writing, Routine, Research

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• Nietzsche's vision of the superman is of someone who's able to control and tame his passions and turn them into something richer than raw emotion and raw feeling. I think the best writing does that too. Untamed passion basically results in bad writing or bad polemics, which so many writers and public intellectuals are vulnerable to.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Passion, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• 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.

  Eliza Coupe

  Writing, Skeletons, Elements

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The dirty secret of art is you don't have to show people your bad writing. That's what we have the delete key for.

  Robert McKee

  Art, Dirty, Writing

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• [Raymond] Chandler, I reread him, and there's a lot of bad writing there. I don't think he knew much about people.

  James Ellroy

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "The Onion talks to crime-fiction kingpin James Ellroy". Interview with John Krewson, www.avclub.com. November 20, 1996.

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• I do think there's a lot of bad writing, and I worry about that in philosophy. I worry about it even more in literary studies, but I wouldn't blame it on any one methodology.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Philosophy, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.neh.gov

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