Famous quotes containing the words bad and/or writing:
“There are certain things in which mediocrity is intolerable: poetry, music, painting, public eloquence. What torture it is to hear a frigid speech being pompously declaimed, or second-rate verse spoken with all a bad poet’s bombast!”
—Jean De La Bruyère (1645–1696)
“Even in writing an annual report, the unconscious plays a role.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)