Sentence examples for writing badly from inspiring English sources

"Aren't I writing badly," he writes — and quite rightly.

I'm ignorant, and I'm capable of writing badly at any time.

Writers are bad because they cleave to the causes of writing badly.

I'd already started writing, badly, in fits and starts, and had taken to carrying slim volumes of poems around with me wherever I went.

Each issue was supposed to contain a hundred articles, none more than four hundred words, a brevity accomplished, generally, by writing badly: in Time, you couldn't say something happened "in the nick of time"; you had to say it happened "in time's nick," a savings of three words.

A few weeks before the book's publication, Díaz and I stood at a Midtown bar for a couple of hours — his back made it hard for him to sit — and talked about writing well, writing badly and the mysterious (but always, he insisted, clear) difference between the two.

As I struggled to say a moment ago — and the difficult thing about these chats is that you find yourself re-writing badly sentences that you struggled for months to write well!

"He who writes badly, thinks badly," he said.

Other people write badly, too, he added, a tad defensively.

In Mr Druon's view, "he who writes badly, thinks badly, and so governs badly".Perhaps.Perhaps

In short, he writes wonderfully far more often than he writes badly.