I'm a failed musician rather than a successful writer.

You gotta pick yourself up. Sometimes you just gotta do it over and over, but you gotta do it. You can't give up. I…

— Steven Adler

I'd hit thirty, I'd sort of failed as a musician, I'd failed as an artist I felt at the time.

— Paul Kaye

The ideal reader of my novels is a lapsed Catholic and failed musician, short-sighted, colour-blind, auditorily biased, who has read the books that I…

— Anthony Burgess

I have reached a point in my life where I would love to be known as a struggling musician rather than a successful TV…

— Aditya Narayan

I don't know any musician, successful or otherwise, that got in it to make money. Or writer, for that matter. You get into it…

— Rick Springfield

One of the things you want as a successful writer is the anonymity.

— Irvine Welsh

I'm a semi-failed writer, but I'm a capital-F Failed musician.

— Joshua Mohr

No matter how successful I may get, I'll always be a failed musician, sitting at a concert double-fisting overpriced twenty-ounce beers, wishing it was…

— Bert Kreischer

“I have a friend who is a very successful writer. Early in his career, he wrote a script that I thought was terrible, and…

— Sam Harris

Your attitude is everything. Believe in yourself and trust your material. To be a successful writer, write every single day where you feel like…

— Alex Haley

This is a stamina game, so don't despair if you run down a blind alley and have to start over, or if you get…

— Tim Maleeny

The number one secret of being a successful writer is this: marry an English major.

— Stephen Ambrose

The successful writer listens to himself.

— Frank Herbert

My big journey was around money. I was a successful writer, I was a musician, but I was just always broke.

— Jen Sincero

“The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.”

— Millicent Ashby