There’s plenty of serious stuff that works to cord the…

There's no literary merit in my books.

— Clive Cussler

It's hard to judge literary merit.

— Henry Rollins

A man of letters, merely by reading a phrase, can estimate exactly the literary merit of its author.

— Marcel Proust

The stuff that works best is driven by passion rather than dollars.

— Craig Newmark

I think the stuff that's very spontaneous, not contrived at all, is the stuff that works.

— John Waite

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

— Douglas Adams

“There’s nothing more important than literary merit, and that’s why I not only created an award—the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award—but I…

— Jarod Kintz

“In reality there is no kind of evidence or argument by which one can show that Shakespeare, or any other writer, is "good". Nor…

— George Orwell

But I also think that once you've found stuff that works, stop reading forums, stop reading reviews and just get out there and play.

— Guthrie Govan

“This stuff only works in practice. In theory, it’s a mess.”

— Cory Doctorow

I just want to put some positive stuff out there. If it works, great. If it doesn't, no problem.

— Kevin James

A critical assumption is sometimes made that [Grisham, Clancey, Crichton & myself] have access to some mystical vulgate that other (and often better) writers…

— Stephen King

I'm starting to feel like I can actually figure out how stuff works. I can actually pick stuff apart and have a chance of…

— Simone Giertz

...book-buyers aren't attracted, by and large, by the literary merits of a novel: book-buyers want a good story...something that will first fascinate them, then…

— Stephen King

There is no test of literary merit except survival, which is itself an index to majority opinion.

— George Orwell