Dan Harmon Quotes

Just because someone has stylistic limitations doesn't necessarily make them a worse writer.

My preference is for really good writing, and I just really don't care where it is.

There is no left and right in writing. There is only good and bad writing.

By writing quickly we are not brought to write well, but by writing well we are brought to write quickly.

Learn to write well, or not to write at all.

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

Ultimately, the first, best step in getting your work noticed is to write good work. If people don't engage in your writing, no amount of serialization or free downloads is going to matter. You have to write something worth reading, and often it takes time to get at that level.

A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

I just keep following the good writing. I'm not good enough to make bad writing look good. Some people can, and I admire them for it, but I cannot. I will go down with the ship.

Editors, for the most part, don't care ''what'' you've done, or how astounding the physical event may have been. You need to write well. Many others are capable of doing what you have done (probably), so you must write better than they.

Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

From writing rapidly it does not result that one writes well, but from writing well it results that one writes rapidly.

There is no pleasure in the world like writing well and going fast.

It's easy to write something average or even something good. But writing well is quite challenging.

By writing much, one learns to write well.

It is the glory and merit of some men to write well and of others not to write at all.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

There are seldom more than a couple of students in any workshop who seem natural writers.

Good writing of course requires talent, and no one can teach you to have talent.

There's many times this year I've sat back and thought, I'm making a living from making things up. It's the only skill I have so I've been really lucky.

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

I think you can be taught to write. You can't be taught to be a good writer. For that, you have to bring something to it, yourself, something that can't be given to you.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.