Success is the delivery of a product that meets expectation

“Delivering a project isn’t difficult. What’s difficult is delivering a project without first taking the time to plan properly”

— James Leal

The business of writing is one of the four or five most private things in the world.

— Ethel Wilson

“I made a list of skills in which I think every adult should gain a working knowledge. I wouldn't expect you to become a…

— Scott Adams

“As it turns out, business writing is all about getting to the point and leaving out all of the noise. You think you already…

— Scott Adams

Actually, writers have no business writing about their own works. They either wax conceited, saying things like: 'My brilliance is possibly most apparent in…

— Connie Willis

I suffer as always from the fear of putting down the first line. It is amazing the terrors, the magics, the prayers, the straitening…

— John Steinbeck

A pathological business, writing, don't you think? Just look what a writer actually does: all that unnatural tense squatting and hunching, all those rituals:…

— Hans Magnus Enzensberger

It's a dismally lonely business, writing.

— Toni Cade Bambara

Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good.

— William Faulkner

You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. Lee Iacocca Love is the irresistible…

— Mark Twain

I think the business of writing a great deal of it is the business of paying attention to your characters, to the world they…

— Salman Rushdie

On the simplest level, telecommuting makes it harder for people to have the kinds of informal interactions that are crucial to the way knowledge…

— James Surowiecki

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

Publishing is a business. Writing may be art, but publishing, when all is said and done, comes down to dollars.

— Nicholas Sparks

“In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.”

— Joseph Brodsky