Those books of mine that are remunerative - I'm not…

I've never been averse to a little risk - after all, writing without risk is not really writing at all. Sometimes one has to…

— Jasper Fforde

To be successful in writing, use short sentences.

— Ernest Hemingway

“I’ve often thought the biggest element of successful writing is the ability to get the seat of your pants to the seat of a…

— Agnes Nixon

The first and perhaps the most important requirement for a successful writing performance - and writing is a performance, like singing an aria or…

— Stephen Greenblatt

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

— Evan Esar

The best way to succeed is to discover what you love and find a way to offer it to others.

— Oprah Winfrey

I feel successful when the writing goes well. This lasts five minutes. Once, when I was number one on the bestseller list, I also…

— Jacqueline Briskin

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

Exercise the writing muscle every day.

— Jane Yolen

To have a successful writing career, you must be willing to sacrifice a great deal. The book, the deadline come first before anything else.…

— Virginia Henley

There are three difficulties in authorship; to write any thing worth the publishing — to find honest men to publish it — and to…

— Charles Caleb Colton

I don't know if there is any one secret to successful writing, but one important step is to move beyond imitation and discover what…

— James Gunn

Writers and musicians know well the importance of extensive reading for successful writing or extensive listening for musical composition. Likewise, visual artists... understand that…

— Paul Laseau

It took me 14 years to write poems about Vietnam. I had never thought about writing about it, and in a way I had…

— Yusef Komunyakaa

It took me sixteen years to write.

— Junot Diaz