My literary success meant nothing to me

Three Rules for Literary Success: 1. Read a lot. 2. Write a lot. 3. Read a lot more, write a lot more.

— Robert Silverberg

You cannot predict literary success; the only way you can possibly aim for it is to do your thing and do it well.

— Emma Donoghue

Isabel Wilkerson's The Warmth of Other Suns is an American masterpiece, a stupendous literary success that channels the social sciences as iconic biography in…

— David Levering Lewis

Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by…

— Lafcadio Hearn

Now literary success can only be won in solitude by persevering labor.

— Honore de Balzac

“If everything was easy and life was beautiful in the absence of countless challenges and obstacles, success would have meant nothing of importance. Unfortunately,…

— JOHN TASKINSOY

While I was doing stand-up, I thought I knew for sure that success meant getting everyone to like me. So I became whoever I…

— Ellen DeGeneres

The difficult bosses - the ones that have been hard for me to work for - have been the ones where I never knew…

— Brian Krzanich

“Success meant nothing to Adam if he hadn’t done it for himself.”

— Maggie Stiefvater

I wasn't always prepared for success because it meant having to be prepared for failure too

— Melody Minagar

Box office success has never meant anything. I couldn't get a film made if I paid for it myself. So I'm not 'box office'…

— Jessica Lange

My favorite literary heroine is Jo March. It is hard to overstate what she meant to a small, plain girl called Jo, who had…

— J. K. Rowling

They never opened the door which leads to the soul.

— Henry Miller

“And when I’d settled down, I considered the possibility that I wasn’t yet ready to ask for the love of anyone because I had…

— Steven Decker

Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished…

— Terry Eagleton