The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.
The second was some rather bad poetry, but it was short, and I forced my way through by gritting my teeth and occasionally closing one eye so as not to damage the entirety of my brain.
I've never read anything so badly written that got published. It made 'Twilight' look like 'War and Peace.'
The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
Most literature everywhere and of every time is bad.
Novels as dull as dishwater, with the grease of random sentiments floating on top.
I kept writing not because I felt I was so good, but because I felt they were so bad, including Shakespeare, all those. The stilted formalism, like chewing cardboard.
Of all the affected, sapless, soulless, beginningless, endless, topless, bottomless, topsiturviest, scrannel- pipiest, tongs and boniest doggerel of sounds I ever endured the deadliest of, that eternityof nothing wasthe deadliest.
What readers ask nowadays in a book is that it should improve, instruct, and elevate. This book wouldn't elevate a cow.
In 1935, Faber & Faber published an anthology entitled 'My Best Western Story' in which the genre's leading practitioners contributed what they considered their finest. Alas, literature the stories ain't; they appear more like fossils from a spent mine.
People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.
