Bad Writing Awards Quotes & Sayings

I will endanger your species like an ostrich,
Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage! — Busta Rhymes

Men have external genitalia, while women have internal genitalia. This simple difference makes a lot of difference in how they write about themselves - and how you might write about your characters. Male writers don't often address internal sensation in a character, because they don't experience it (and probably often don't realize consciously that it's there). This accounts for a lot of Really Terrible sex scenes written by men (if you look at the "Bad Sex-Scene Awards" in any given year, you'll see that the vast majority are done by male writers). — Diana Gabaldon

Unfortunately, Bretorius had found mediocrity too high a bar. He had advanced in the fleet the old-fashioned way: he'd stuck around so long they had to give him a command, or muster him out. — John Jackson Miller

Wisdom delights in water; love delights in hills. Wisdom is stirring; love is quiet. Wisdom is merry; love grows old. — Confucius

Nargant often noticed how his own thought processes made endless twists and turns, even to reach totally insignificant decisions, and how much energy he wasted, almost without thinking about it, trying to protect himself on all sides against all eventualities. — Andreas Eschbach

Acting is something that I couldn't recommend to anyone because the odds of it working out are so insane. I don't know how it worked out for me. I had no connections to this industry. I had no ins anywhere. — Kat Dennings

It is plain there is not in nature a point of stability to be found; everything either ascends or declines; when wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home; and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition. — Walter Raleigh

If aught I have said is truth, that truth shall reveal itself in a clearer voice, and in words more kin to your thoughts. — Khalil Gibran

I don't feel the need for religion. But I went on a yoga retreat last year and I do believe slightly in the karma thing and just being good and true unto yourself. And I slightly believe that you can attract good and bad to you. — Imelda Staunton

No commentary, Nora. Please," he said as he pushed an arm inside the mare.
"I won't say a single word," she pledged as she took the horse's head in her lap. "Except that this reminds me of my last date with Griffin. — Tiffany Reisz

So-Youn has good qualities in both jump and power, triple combination is her biggest strength and she also has great artistic value in her skating. — Kim Yuna

I approached writing a story for the CBC Literary Awards as a mercenary venture - $5,000 for one story, not bad. Now, how do you win it? Jurors are wading through skyscrapers of paper, looking for one story that stands out. — Michael Winter

So it's a source of fun and a source of pride to have been a part of this little movie that could. — Blair Underwood

His pride," said Miss Lucas, "does not offend ME so much as pride often does, because there is an excuse for it. — Jane Austen

It is very comforting to believe that leaders who do terrible things are, in fact, mad. That way, all we have to do is make sure we don't put psychotics in high places and we've got the problem solved. — Tom Wolfe

For many societies, the journey to modernity has been painful and costly. — Elliott Abrams