Jim Gaffigan 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.

There is good and mediocre writing within every genre.

You have to go where the good writing is.

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

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

Once something is well-written, then everything else is gravy.

You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved.

I still think it's really quite wonderful when I read a sentence of mine and it has that quality of lastingness.

That's why, when Alias came along, I knew I'd be OK if the show was on for five or six years because the writing was so good and the creative team was so strong.

Nobody sits down and says, 'Well, I'm going to write a bad book.' They sit down to write a great book, but it doesn't always turn out like that. The writer may do his best and still write a so-so book, and other times, it just flows easily. But I don't know how you can control that.

My writing improved the more I wrote - and the more I read good writing, from Shakespeare on down.

Easy reading is damn hard writing. But if it's right, it's easy. It's the other way round, too. If it's slovenly written, then it's hard to read. It doesn't give the reader what the careful writer can give the reader.

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

If you write really good material, the rest just falls into place. There's really no trick to it.

It's not hard to write poorly. But to write something good, it has to be revised.

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

Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

Agents and publishers only want one thing - good writing.

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.

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

You can fake a lot of stuff, but you can't fake if the story isn't there and if the writing isn't good.

The simple idiot's advice I give to screenwriters who say they want to sell a screenplay is, 'Write good.'

Mainly I love working on good writing.

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.

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