Mark Barrowcliffe Quotes

I like the process of pencil and paper as opposed to a machine. I think the writing is better when it's done in handwriting.

Most scripts are bad. I read a lot of them.

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

I don't want to marry anybody, but I certainly wouldn't want to marry a bad novelist.

Television has raised writing to a new low.

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

I wrote the worst novel ever.

Because you can't write habitually and well all the time, you have to be willing to write badly. That's how you get the regularity that enables you to be present for the good stuff.

I like pens. My writing is so amazing there's never a need to erase.

Even the best novels have their share of stinker lines.

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.

The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.

Only bad writers think they're good.

Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.

Jokes that are gratuitously offensive are synonymous with bad writing to me. I'm offended as a writer first and as a person second.

Wordiness is a sickness of American writing. Too many words dilute and blur ideas.

Bad writing is like a bad relationship. Don't be addicted to it just because you are familiar with its ways. Let go.

You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.

When I worked on a magazine, I learned that there are many, many writers writing that can't write at all; and they keep on writing all the cliches and bromides and 1890 plots, and poems about Spring and poems about Love, and poems they think are modern because they are done in slang or staccato style, or written with all the 'i's' small.

What helps change bad writing into mediocre writing is editing. Editing is in bad shape in print journalism, and is in virtually nonexistent shape in online journalism.

I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I admire them for it, but I cannot. I will go down with the ship.

If it is a distinction to have written a good book, it is also a disgrace to have written a bad one.

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

Everyone judges plays as if they were very easy to write. They don't know that it is hard to write a good play, and twice as hardand tortuous to write a bad one.