Andrew Wylie 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.

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

Good writin' ain't necessarily good readin'.

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.

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.

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.

That writer does the most who gives his reader the most knowledge and takes from him the least time.

Good sense is both the first principal and the parent source of good writing.

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

You have to go where the good writing is.

We all need to focus on our writing. Because the millions of readers out there don't care about your blog.

You just can't make bad writing look good. But if you have good writing, you just say it, and it's almost done.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

I've tried writing on a computer thinking it would make me more efficient, but if you're writing crummy stuff, being efficient is no help.

I am a stickler for damn 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.

Half your battle is won when the writing is good, and then you as an artist bring your personality into it.

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

Whatever I'm doing, I try to write well. I try to give the reader a nice, clean well-written surface, where the writing is transparent. It probably takes me longer to write things, but it's very important to me that the writing itself be good.

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

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

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

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Anything works, as long as you write it properly.

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