Paul Sparks Quotes

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.

You have to go where the good writing is.

Write for yourself, not for a perceived audience. If you do, you'll mostly fall flat on your face, because it's impossible to judge what people want. And you have to read. That's how you learn what is good writing and what is bad. Then the main thing is application. It's hard work.

I have grown in my writing and I care about it now and I know how important it is to write stuff.

Give me good writing, and I'll play it all day.

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

Like most art forms, writing is part instinct and part craft. The craft part is the part that can be taught, and that can make a crucial difference to lots of writers.

I've grown more and more appreciative of good writing, and I now really hope I can become a better and better writer.

I think writing well takes a little bit of talent and an awful lot of work.

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

I'm very happy with the way I write. I think I do it good. But I've never really considered myself a writer.

Ultimately, it's about the quality of the writing whatever style you are writing.

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.

It's easy to write a good column if you've got good information. It's hard if you have to depend on style alone. I suppose there are people who can get away with styling on a regular basis. I'm not one of them. You're probably not, either.

I'm a pretty decent writer. It comes easy to me. I don't agonize over sentences. I write like I talk. I try to make them good books.

I write as well as I can. I'm a journalist at heart, so it's the story that matters.

Great writing is great writing. It's as simple as all that.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

Good writing is good writing, and I'm so happy when I read it.

It's all in the writing. The writing has got to be there. Whether that's dialogue or character, or whatever, it doesn't matter. As long as they've done something special, than you can do something special.

Writing teaches writing.

It takes practice to do anything unique within this field, period, in writing, practice doing anything unique in writing.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

To develop your own voice, you have to keep writing a ton, and this is something where I think Twitter is helpful. I use it to write a ton of jokes. You have to write a ton of bad stuff before you know what you're good at. And that's what some people I think have trouble with, the thought of getting past the bad stuff.