Baad Writing Quotes

Conversely, bad writers often write in order to forward a cause or enlarge other people's understanding of a contemporary social issue. Any attempt to write fiction in order to make the world a better, fairer place is almost certain to fail. ~ Toby Litt

Look seeker, if you love a character, you give them pain, ruin their lives, make them suffer. Maybe even throw in a heroic death! ~ Varric Tethras

A close girlfriend of mine and I have been writing and playing together for years and decided to make it official, so we formed a band called 'Everly.' ~ Bethany Joy Lenz

If you'd blush saying something in person, don't write it. ~ Jonathan Price

Her name, he says like the Lord's taken in vain. Sometimes he says "Mexico," and the word has nothing in it at all. A wall with no colors painted on it. ~ Barbara Kingsolver

Writing is a provocation. ~ Marty Rubin

And here it is worth while remembering, since we are discussing Not Writing for Children, that neither the Sleeping Beauty nor Rumpelstiltzkin was really written for children. In fact, none of the fundamental fairy stories was ever written at all. They all arose spontaneously from the folk and were transmitted orally from generation to generation to unlettered listeners of all ages. ~ P.L. Travers

I always joke that my kids' favorite holiday is Father's Day. They love the way I celebrate the occasion by writing each of them a thank-you letter and a generous check. It's my way of letting them know how much I appreciate the great pleasure and privilege of being their dad. ~ Wayne Dyer

I believe it is the inability of beginning writers to achieve at least a certain degree of detachment from their writing that defeats so many of them before they even get started. Without this distancing, any criticism of your writing will seem devastating, even incapacitating, whereas with the proper amount of detachment it will seem merely cruel and unusual punishment. ~ Patrick F. McManus

One of the rules of history is that people do not write about what is too obvious to mention. And so the information, having never been recorded, is now lost for ever. ~ Michael Bywater

Some few there must be in every age and every land of whom life claims nothing very insistently save that they write perfectly of beautiful happenings. ~ James Branch Cabell

To the enormous majority of persons who risk themselves in literature, not even the smallest measure of success can fall. They had better take to some other profession as quickly as may be, they are only making a sure thing of disappointment, only crowding the narrow gates of fortune and fame. Yet there are others to whom success, though easily within their reach, does not seem a thing to be grasped at. Of two such, the pathetic story may be read, in the Memoir of A Scotch Probationer, Mr. Thomas Davidson, who died young, an unplaced Minister of the United Presbyterian Church, in 1869. He died young, unaccepted by the world, unheard of, uncomplaining, soon after writing his latest song on the first grey hairs of the lady whom he loved. And she, Miss Alison Dunlop, died also, a year ago, leaving a little work newly published, Anent Old Edinburgh, in which is briefly told the story of her life. There can hardly be a true tale more brave and honourable, for those two were eminently qualified to shine, with a clear and modest radiance, in letters. Both had a touch of poetry, Mr. Davidson left a few genuine poems, both had humour, knowledge, patience, industry, and literary conscientiousness. No success came to them, they did not even seek it, though it was easily within the reach of their powers. Yet none can call them failures, leaving, as they did, the fragrance of honourable and uncomplaining lives, and such brief records of these as to delight, and console and encourage us al ~ Andrew Lang

Cultural evolution can proceed so quickly because it operates, as biological evolution does not, in the "Lamarckian" mode - by the inheritance of acquired characters. Whatever one generation learns, it can pass to the next by writing, instruction, inculcation, ritual, tradition, and a host of methods that humans have developed to assure continuity in culture. Darwinian evolution, on the other hand, is an indirect process: genetic variation must first be available to construct an advantageous feature, and natural selection must then preserve it. Since genetic variation arises at random, not preferentially directed toward advantageous features, the Darwinian process works slowly. Cultural evolution is not only rapid; it is also readily reversible because its products are not coded in our genes. ~ Stephan Jay Gould

Writing historical novels can be dangerous. We need to be as accurate and as fair about the historical record as we can be, at the same time as creating our fictional characters and, hopefully, telling a good story. The challenge is weaving the fiction into the history. ~ Edward Rutherfurd

Having had the good fortune to serve beside her on both courts, I can attest that her opinions are always thoroughly considered, always carefully crafted and almost always correct (which is to say we sometimes disagree). That much is apparent for all to see. What only her colleagues know is that her suggestions improve the opinions the rest of us write, and that she is a source of collegiality and good judgment in all our work. ~ Antonin Scalia

We do not write because we want to; we write because we have to. ~ W. Somerset Maugham

What I see as the particularly exciting prospect for writing horror fiction as we go forward is setting stories in more internal landscapes than external ones, mapping out the mind as the home for scary things instead of the house at the end of the lane or lakeside campground or abandoned amusement park. ~ Andrew Pyper

Do not let any record company disturb your creative flow. You are not writing for the record company. You're writing for the public. ~ Grandmaster Flash

Cameron Rogers writes like a magician. ~ K.J. Bishop

You can only write so many pop songs before they all sound the same. I got to a point where something overtly melodic and straightforward sounded sort of cheesy to me. Pop songs seemed too manufactured. ~ Dylan Baldi

I love to write and to get to know the people who are listening. ~ Emilie Autumn

The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes. ~ Randy Owen

Most gothics are overplotted novels whose success or failure hinges on the author's ability to make you believe in the characters and partake of the mood. ~ Stephen King

The only people who can be excused for letting a bad book loose on the world are the poor devils who have to write for a living. ~ Moliere

It's while writing that suddenly a point of view appears: 'So, that's what I really thought about this thing'. Then it feels part of me. ~ Amelie Nothomb

I do a lot of editing and switching around and putting little pieces together to get the right mood and personality, and it takes me forever to get a song finished. ~ Matt Berninger

We are in the middle of the biggest revolution in reading and writing since the advent of the Gutenberg press. ~ Sara Sheridan

Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. ~ Anais Nin

Creating characters is easy. It's getting them to behave that's the problem. ~ Steven Ramirez

My mind can be ugly. But when I read something of mine that I think is beautiful, I'm reminded mind can be beautiful too. ~ Lisa M. Cronkhite

You can write jokes at any point of the day. Jokes are not that hard to write, or they shouldn't be when it is literally your job. ~ John Oliver

I really enjoy going to a library and spending the day doing research - to me that is the most pleasurable part of writing the science book. ~ Bill Bryson

Talent is as common as table salt. The difference between a talented person and a successful one is a lot of hard work. ~ Stephen King

Whoever suffers knows the strength of suffering. ~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dance with the clouds. ~ A.D. Posey

I always say that I'm an artist who works with pictures and words, so I think that the different aspects of my activity, whether it's writing criticism, or doing visual work that incorporates writing, or teaching, or curating, is all of a single cloth, and I don't make any separation in terms of those practices. ~ Barbara Kruger

The same Andrew Smith is in all these books, but for me, I feel like you can see the point in his writing where he decided he no longer had anything to lose. That, to me, is when he reached the top of his game."

~ Christa Desir ~ Christa Desir

Let's not forget The Things They Do To Make Themselves Happy That Actually Make Them Miserable. This is an infinite list. It includes - shopping, watching TV, taking the better job, getting the bigger house, writing a semi-autobiographical novel, educating their young, making their skin look mildly less old and harboring a vague desire to believe there might be a meaning to it all. ~ Matt Haig