Writing Quality Quotes

You can't write drunk.

Mainly I love working on good writing.

When I read 'Greenberg,' I had a really strong sense if I could be any kind of writer I wanted to be, I'd be this kind of writer. And I felt like, even in my experiences, what writing I had done, even on a small scale, when it was good, it shared some quality with it.

Disorganizatio n is the enemy of good writing.

If it's a drama or comedy, it doesn't matter to me. I just want to like the writing.

Nothing improves your writing, I think, as much as your keeping writing.

The thing I am attracted to is just good writing and stories that are based somewhat in reality.

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

One of the more interesting things I've learnt since becoming a writer is that if you like the book, you'll generally like the person. It doesn't always work in reverse - there are huge numbers of lovely people out there writing not very good books.

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

All good writing comes out of aloneness.

I think if the writing comes too easily, it shows - it's usually hard to read.

For every Scott Fitzgerald concerned with the precise word and the selection of relevant incident, there are a hundred American writers, many well-regarded, who appear to believe that one word is just as good as another and that everything which occurs to them is worth putting down.

An awful lot of thriller writers write women rather badly. So just doing it OK gets a lot of credit.

You can have good writing, but a great actor will make it feel and sound like great writing. You can have great writing, and mediocre actors will make it feel mediocre. Without the actors, you have nothing.

Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.

One of the things I noticed about the '2 Broke Girls' pilot was that it looked like a new episode in a season and not a pilot, and that's an amazing sign.

I'd say that about 82 percent of what I write is bad, but don't go by me; I'm as bad a judge as I am a writer. Look, if it were all good, you'd be paying twice as much for this book.

Intelligence alone can't make a good writer and style alone can't make a good writer - that is, not a really important or significant writer - but the two things together make a really good writer.

Although there is no substitute for merit in writing, clarity comes closest to being one.

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

If I had more time, I would have written less.

Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

Having reached the halfway mark in the alphabet, my prime focus is on writing each new book as well as I can.