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Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they don't try or give up when their efforts don't lead to a masterpiece right away. If you work at it, you will improve.

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.

Writing is one of the few activities where quantity will inevitably make quality. The more you write, the better you're going to get at it.

It's always struck me as unfair that writing has so little sensation when it's going well.

So many good songs get written fast, because you know exactly what has to work.

My brother used to say that I wrote faster than he could read. He wrote two books - of poems - better than all mine put together.

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

It takes me a long time to write, and I trust myself, so I write very sparsely, so when I do, I know it's good, you know what I mean? Rather than writing a whole bunch and having to sort out what's good and what's not.

If you are having trouble with a story, it may not be an issue with the quality of the writing - there may just be too much of it.

Writing is a hard gig, and it's hard to convey a lot. That's why scripts tend to be a little bit overwritten.