Top 42 Badly Written Quotes
#1. Heresy is usually quite sophisticated, actually has a meaning, and is to be taken very seriously. It is therefore to be carefully distinguished from turgid, pretentious, badly-written Bullsgeshichte, to use the technical German theological term.
Carl R. Trueman
#2. Every role is challenging in its own way, but the most challenging roles are the ones that are badly written - then it's completely up to you to come up with something that is interesting to the story and myself as an actor.
Richard Schiff
#3. I think I learned a lot from reading in general - even from reading badly written books.
Margaret Haddix
#4. I just am so tired of really badly written women. It's so boring.
Chris O'Dowd
#6. I don't collect books just because other people collect them, and I'm not going to have books in my collection if I think it's badly written.
Richard Prince
#7. We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.
Nick Hornby
#8. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written, that's all.
Walter Moers
#9. I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'
Salman Rushdie
#10. A man who leaves memoirs, whether well or badly written, provided they be sincere, renders a service to future psychologists and writers, giving them not only a faithful picture, but likewise human documents that may be relied upon.
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#11. I did a terrible television pilot that was so badly written and dumb that it became a turning point for me and I decided that I would never accept a job just because I needed the money.
Fran Drescher
#12. A book is either nicely written or it's badly written. That's it.
Oscar Wilde
#13. The United States is a nation of laws, badly written and randomly enforced.
Frank Zappa
#15. I felt as if I had become part of a badly written novel, that someone was taking me to task for being utterly unreal. And perhaps it was true.
Haruki Murakami
#16. I don't read much nonfiction because the nonfiction I do read always seems to be so badly written. What I enjoy about fiction - the great gift of fiction - is that it gives language an opportunity to happen.
Stanley Elkin
#17. The 20th century has been a badly written drama, from the beginning.
Leonard Bernstein
#18. Life is a moderately good play with a badly written third act.
Truman Capote
#19. The unflattering reviews are painful for short periods of time; the badly written ones are deeply, deeply insulting. That reviewer took no time to really read the book.
Toni Morrison
#20. as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century
Oscar Wilde
#21. I have had the unfortunate experience of having someone write an unauthorised biography of me. Half of it is lies and the other half is badly written. My feeling is that if I'm going to write my life story, I ought to have my life first.
Dawn French
#22. It was like listening to two badly written computer programs trying to convince each other that they were sentient.
Greg Egan
#23. The only thing that would ever embarrass me would be something I would write that would be badly written.
Gloria Vanderbilt
#24. Lieutenant Trotta wasn't experienced enough to know that uncouth peasant boys with noble hearts exist in real life and that a lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written.
Joseph Roth
#25. I was turning up at sets where inexperienced people were making these badly written films - but they were doing it; that was the point. They were getting their films out there. And they were paying me, so they obviously had access to money. I just thought, 'I can make something better than this.'
Dexter Fletcher
#26. The world is a stage, but the play is badly written.
Oscar Wilde
#27. A lot of truths about the living world are recorded in bad books; they are just badly written about.
Joseph Roth
#28. Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic.
Aaron Allston
#29. I have spent myself on all kinds of things ... I have advanced much politically but I have written little and moreover have written it badly.
Ba Jin
#30. Although I'm not actually embarrassed by this, I tend not to read books that have awesome movies made from them, regardless of how well or badly the movie represented the actual written story.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#31. She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.
David Nicholls
#32. Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.
David Nicholls
#33. If a man means his writing seriously, he must mean to write well. But how can he write well until he learns to see what he has written badly. His progress toward good writing and his recognition of bad writing are bound to unfold at something like the same rate.
John Ciardi
#34. Listen you little turd, don't tell me my business. It's not worth the risk," the Old Man snarled.
"But Green ... Yikes, that stings!
Judy Byington
#35. People want to be told what to do so badly that they'll listen to anyone.
[Written by Andre and Maria Jacquemetton]
Don Draper From 'Mad Men'
#36. The British press have written some nasty and spiteful things about the way I look which used to affect me quite badly when it was new to me but luckily, I've learned to ignore the comments. why do they even care about how I look?
Melanie Chisholm
#37. I'm always interested in talented or odd people, and my whole life I've written about geniuses who society has treated badly and they strike back - or not.
David Lagercrantz
#38. Any kind of music can be written badly and it can be written wonderfully. I admire a top performer in any field.
Jack Kirby
#39. I do apologize for writing by hand - and so badly. I shall soon be like Helen Thomas, notoriously illegible. In her last letter only two words stood out plain: 'Blood pressure.' Subsequent research demonstrated that what she had actually written was 'Beloved friends.
Sylvia Townsend Warner
#40. When I write a page that reads badly I know that it is myself who has written it. When it reads well it has come through from somewhere else.
Gerald Brenan
#41. A lot of today's campaigns are based on optimum positioning but are totally ineffective - because they are dull, or badly constructed, or ineptly written. If nobody reads your advertisement or looks at your commercial, it doesn't do you much good to have the right positioning.
David Ogilvy
#42. (Slap) "Owhhh ... " Raymond yelled as the Old Man's cane hit his face.
Judy Byington
