Anything Quote by Michael Connelly

When you're writing something that is truly original it takes time.

— Daniel Lissing

Speed is not an indicator of quality in terms of fiction. That's true of one's relative slowness or swiftness - taking 10 years to…

— Chuck Wendig

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

— Quintilian

Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed.

— Ray Bradbury

Somehow writing has always seemed to me to have an element of performance.

— Joan Didion

It would be a fallacy to deduce that the slow writer necessarily comes up with superior work. There seems to be scant relationshipbetween prolificness…

— Fannie Hurst

There is a prevailing school of thought that something good must take time, sometimes years to create and hone. I have always felt that…

— Michael Connelly

I used to joke about this but I've recently realized that I really believe it: I spent many years training myself to write very…

— George Saunders

It's rare that a good writer will sit down and write a good script. Writers are greedy too, and they don't want to work…

— Richard Gere

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…

— Lauren Tarshis

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right…

— Lauren Tarshis

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

— Richard Curtis