Alex Pareene Quotes

If something is well-written, it has a chance to be good and if it's not well-written, it will not be good. It could even become popular, but it won't be good.

What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.

Occasionally I find a travel book that is both illuminating and entertaining, where vivid writing and research replace self-indulgence and sloppy prose.

You have to go where the good writing is.

Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.

Great journalism will always attract readers. The words, pictures and graphics that are the stuff of journalism have to be brilliantly packaged; they must feed the mind and move the heart.

The best, most creative, most authentic content and stories will win, will rise to the top.

Whatever's good about your book should be good on page 1, or very few editors are going to get to page 2.

It's hard to build community around mediocre and mundane writing.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

We want our content to be insightful in every way.

To write anything decent, it's hard. Anything you want to be good is hard.

Some media companies that rely on advertising revenue are tying journalist compensation to the traffic their story generates. It doesn't work because it de-prioritizes writing.

With 'Lucha Underground,' it's really tight, and you don't need to fast-forward. Everything you're watching is important and entertaining.

I don't like to write boring books.

I am a stickler for damn good writing.

Subject is very important. If you're going to write non-fiction the style means nothing or very little. The content justifies the effort you need to put into the writing itself.

I don't watch the kind of cinema where people say, 'Leave your brain at home,' and watch.

I follow only one rule in my writing, and that is to be interesting. If the story is interesting to you, the writer, then it will probably be interesting to somebody else.

Writing can be fun. I think the challenge is to convey interesting things in accessible ways, and that's what I aim to do in books.

The brilliant thing about 'Blue Peter' is the variety of the stuff you do and the experiences that you have, just amazing experiences.

In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why their writing is so terrible. These are smart people, after all.

If you here require a practical rule of me, I will present you with this: 'Whenever you feel an impulse to perpetrate a piece of exceptionally fine writing, obey it - whole-heartedly - and delete it before sending your manuscript to press.'

Good content, in any form, works, and what is not good, won't work. It's simple.

After so many years, I don't really think writing has to be absolutely new. No. It has to be good work.