I have a very different view. I think quality takes effort, and unless you are extremely gifted, or extremely practiced as a writer (i.e., you've done it profes

I have a very different view. I think quality takes effort, and unless you are extremely gifted, or extremely practiced as a writer (i.e., you've done it professionally for years) what you write as a first draft is probably terrible. As such, if you actually want to produce text worth reading, you'll need to spend (a lot of) time editing and critiquing each draft you write. I also think the world abounds with supposedly quirky people, who think that that is enough. It is (almost certainly) not enough. Unless you are incredibly unusual and individualistic, your quirckyness is not sufficient to make your work worth reading. The problem is that there are lots of interesting, unusual and deep people, and some of them also spend a huge amount of time and effort on the craft of writing.