Quotes About Sloppy Writing

#1. God help you if you use voice-over in your work, my friends. God help you. That's flaccid, sloppy writing. Any idiot can write a voice-over narration to explain the thoughts of a character.

Robert McKee

#2. Sloppy writing reflects sloppy thinking.

Milton Friedman

#3. A people that grows accustomed to sloppy writing is a people in process of losing grip on its empire and on itself.

Ezra Pound

#4. The present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral earth community with all its human and other-than-human components.

Thomas Berry

#5. She called me her devil and I called her my everything. We clung to each other, sweaty, spent, and forever entwined. My starved heart and soul were gorged to the point of overflowing and every battle I'd ever fought felt like it had been nothing if this was my victory, being here with her.

Jay Crownover

#6. The message of love and compassion will travel far and wide if all who follow a spiritual path work together in harmony and mutual respect.

Dalai Lama

#7. Every northerner is worth ten of these southron swords,

George R R Martin

#8. The beauty in the outer world can only be seen, when one stops focusing on the negativity in their inner world.

Anthony Liccione

#9. Introduction of deus ex machina is a tell-tale sign of sloppy plotting.

Mike Mehalek

#10. Maybe I'm too busy being yours to fall for somebody new.

Alex Turner

#11. I'm a fairly fast, but sloppy writer, so I'm a big fan of re-writing, and re-writing again.

Jeannette Walls

#12. Write at a pace that doesn't surpass your creative flow. Don't be hasty; don't be sloppy. Don't forfeit impressive writing for an impressive word count. Because eventually it will all have to be edited, and you'll find that it is harder to make bad writing good than to make good writing better.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#13. I lived in Atlanta for a couple of years while getting my masters at Georgia State. I thought I hated it at the time, but I've been back a couple of times since, and there's no place I've lived to which returning is so much like visiting a place I only remember from my dreams.

David Liss

#14. There should be a colossal mother going about the world to turn men over her lap and give them the slipper. They pine for it.

Mary Catherwood

#15. Chicago's like Melbourne - there's a city center, there's public transport, and there's more of a cultural scene.

Jesse Spencer

#16. Sometimes it's faster and more efficient to destroy.

Ally Condie

#17. If we acknowledge our need for God, he will help us.

Ben Carson

#18. Just as when spring comes, Nature celebrates, When Navaratri comes, the Spirit celebrates.

Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

#19. Since we became Buddhist, we have lived in peace with them. We did not invade them. We did not want them to invade us. We have never declared war on China.

Dalai Lama

#20. For I aint, you must know,' said Betty, 'much of a hand at reading writing-hand, though I can read my Bible and most print. And I do love a newspaper. You mightn't think it, but Sloppy is a beautiful reader of a newspaper. He do the Police in different voices.

Charles Dickens

#21. When a boy writes off the world, it's done with sloppy misspelled words, if / a girl writes off the world it's done in cursive?

Sage Francis

#22. Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

Arthur Smith

#23. Shirley Jackson said that a confused reader is an antagonistic reader, and I live by that. It's okay to start anywhere, and to let yourself write a big sloppy overly-detailed first draft. You just jump in, knowing that the water will be cold at first, but no one is making you swim.

Anne Lamott

#24. Writing is nature's way of letting you know how sloppy your thinking is.

Leslie Lamport

#25. The job of the artist is to make a gesture and really show people what their potential is. It's not about the object, and it's not about the image; it's about the viewer. That's where the art happens.

Jeff Koons