Famous quotes containing the words bad and/or writing:
“All good men are international. Nearly all bad men are cosmopolitan. If we are to be international we must be national.”
—Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874–1936)
“Such writing is a sort of mental masturbation.... I don’t mean that he is indecent but viciously soliciting his own ideas into a state which is neither poetry nor anything else but a Bedlam vision produced by raw pork and opium.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)