Rod Serling Quotes

I believe if you write a great book, the chances are it'll get a great reception.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

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

One wouldn't want to say that what makes a good writer is the number of books that the writer wrote because you could write a whole number of bad books. Books that don't work, mediocre books, or there's a whole bunch of people in the pulp tradition who have done that. They just wrote... and actually they didn't write a whole bunch of books, they just wrote one book many times.

Good writers hate bad writing but hating bad writing doesn’t make you good. Writing badly does.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

Is the prestige conferred by the Man Booker prize for the book or me? I would prefer it on the book and for me to be treated ordinarily.

A lot of great authors are published before their time. That's not wrong; it's just the way it works.

I'm glad a genre writer has got a knighthood, but stunned that it was me.

You don't need to be able to string a sentence together in a way that is elegant or even vaguely meaningful to produce a bestseller - as Dan Brown has demonstrated time and again.

When you write a book, you're an expert, and people look at you in a different way.

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.

If you're really a good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God, you'll write, and you'll be read, and you'll be produced somehow. It just works that way. If you're just a simple ordinary day-to-day craftsman, no different than most, then the likelihood is that you probably won't make it in writing.

It's much more important to write than to be written about.

Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that Jo Rowling is a terrific writer and Stephenie Meyer can’t write worth a darn. She’s not very good.

Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.

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

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

People do not deserve to have good writing, they are so pleased with bad.

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

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Writing a good query letter has very little to do with writing a good novel. But if you can't write the one, it makes it really hard to get the other published.

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