“Write quickly and you will never write well; write well, and you will soon write quickly.”
“Now he would never write the things that he had saved to write until he knew enough to write them well. Well, he would not have to fail at trying to write them either. Maybe you could never write them, and that was why you put them off and delayed the starting. Well he would never know, now.”
“One would never write a single word if one knew the horrors that lay ahead,’ agreed Charlotte.‘But if you sell copies by the sackload, you may well forget the horrors,’ I agreed quickly.”
“Write even when you don't want to, don't much like what you are writing, and aren't writing particularly well.”
“...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...”
“Writing well means never having to say, "I guess you had to be there.”