The reason I found it impossible to love is the quality of the writing.
What made this little book so special was the quality of the writing.
The structure is so dazzling it almost distracts you from the quality of the writing.
Sales certainly weren't high because of the quality of the writing.
For Murray, at least, it was the quality of the writing.
"And what unites them both," he explains, "is the quality of the writing.
Their essays follow no particular pattern, the common denominator being the exceptionally high quality of the writing.
Cross-over criteria For both juries it should be said that subject-matter came second to the quality of the writing.
Ian wrote a piece for the Guardian for the day after - a speed which was incredible, given the quality of the writing.
But the judges appear to have been swayed by the quality of the story rather than the quality of the writing.
Probably because of anxiety about citing others' work properly, not missing someone out and general anxiety about the quality of the writing.
