What Makes Bad Writing | Dear Book Lover – WSJ.com

“…It’s impossible to define bad writing because no one would agree on a definition. We all know it when we see it, and we all see it subjectively. I remember going almost mad with irritation at how many times Carolyn Chute used the phrase ‘fox-color eyes’ in her best-selling novel ‘The Beans of Egypt, Maine’—bad writing, I thought. On Amazon, other readers called it ‘brilliant.’”