- Bad Ones
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bad Quotes
Straight talk about the bad stretches.
These quotes cover a pitcher accepting that pain eventually comes with the job, a squad's uneasy feelings over uneven pay, and a nod to how poor choices tend to drive horror-film plots. For the flip side of tough moments, see Good.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Everyone
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Republican and Democratic parties have accomplished an amazing feat with the red state/blue state paradigm. They've convinced everyone that regardless of how bad they are, the other guy is worse.
- Great Tragedy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always thought the point of life was something richer than that. Something full of great tragedy or comedy, reversal of fortune, ecstasy, that kind of thing. But no, contemporary urban theorists seem satisfied with the merely livable, which always sounds to me like the merely survivable, the not so bad.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
I see bad stuff on the street all the time that I don't do anything about. I do bad stuff myself all the time. The goal is not to somehow be perfect - that's silly, that's naive. The goal is to just recognize there are choices in front of us, and to try to make better ones.
- Flyer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
Get your butt in a chair and write. If it comes out weak or bad or clunky or ordinary, then accept that this happens to everyone. Everyone. Get it down, get it done, and fix it in the rewrite. Just like everyone from Stephen King to J. K. Rowling to Chuck Palahniuk does.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Bad Blood' tells the story of Trick, a teenage slacker on the losing side of a fight with cancer. When he's attacked by a vampire, he figures it's game over. Except that the chemo drugs in Trick's blood poison the vampire.
- Nov 07, 2020
Without strenuous preplanning, road food is almost always bad food, sad food, chain food, clown food.
- Keep Going
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first draft of everything, I write longhand. One of the nice things about that is that it makes you keep going. If you write a bad sentence on the computer, then it's very tempting to go back and fidget with it and spend another 20 minutes trying to make it into a good sentence.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never want to be in a position where your reader feels like you're passing judgment on your own characters. Any novel where you feel like the author is talking to the reader over the characters' heads is in a bad place.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Forty-five years since I made my first paycheck, and I'm telling you that 'Breaking Bad' is as good as it gets.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that I don't enjoy a good mystery that comes and goes in a hour. I do, but God, 'Breaking Bad' and 'Saul' unfold like novels.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love 'Boardwalk Empire,' but there were moments where I thought it didn't have the constant through-line that 'Breaking Bad' did and 'Better Call Saul' does.
- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020