Quality vs Quantity

[eyez0nme]

What is more important?

How many pages you write? Or if you have anything important to say at all?

 

[ValkyrieRaven88]

Quality, defintely. Some of the best books in the world haven't been very long at all, and some of the worst books in the world have been horrendously long. If you have nothing good to say, it's pointless to worry about how many pages you spit out, because they'll be pages that aren't worth very much.

Of course...it would be nice if we could have both quality and quantity, wouldn't it?

 

[eyez0nme]

What about if you're a writer?

 

[ValkyrieRaven88]

Considering what the reader is looking for, I'd say a writer should aways shoot for quality, because quantity isn't that important in the long run. There have been both very long and very short books that have been successful, but there are few books of poor quality that are successful--this is debatable, of course, but let's not get into that. To compete with other writers, the most important thing is that you make people like your story, and that means quality.