Famous quotes containing the words bad and/or writing:
“Things never are as bad as they seem.”
—Johnny Mercer (1909–1976)
“The naive notion that a mother naturally acquires the complex skills of childrearing simply because she has given birth now seems as absurd to me as enrolling in a nine-month class in composition and imagining that at the end of the course you are now prepared to begin writing War and Peace.”
—Mary Kay Blakely (20th century)