Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality. — John Updike Copy Share Image
I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something. — Ken Kesey Copy Share Image
Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret. — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
Get it down. Take chances. It may be bad, but that's the only way you can do anything really good. — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen. — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
I would want to travel the world and write about it. To be a famous writer. — Shantel VanSanten Copy Share Image
If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have… — Padgett Powell Copy Share Image
SURE-FIRE SINGLES AD: Famous Writer needs woman to organize his life and spend his money. Loves to turn off Sunday football and… — Joe Bob Briggs Copy Share Image
For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or… — Anna Funder Copy Share Image
I learned that famous writers are people with foibles like anyone else and this helped me realize reaching their level of notoriety… — Kirby Wright Copy Share Image
Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
“You cannot change the world with ideas. People with few ideas are less likely to make mistakes; they follow what everyone else… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have… — Debbie Macomber Copy Share Image
I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
The Revelation was my master's project, and after I finished it, I thought I'd send it off to a publisher and within… — Bentley Little Copy Share Image
“All those happy, pretty, successful people- he hated them because he knew they didn't really exist, and he hated even more the… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
I know of only one country, at least to my knowledge, which has a dissident culture where leading figures, I mean, the… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something.… — Ariel Gore Copy Share Image
The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
“Who are you? She asked silently, as she laid away the collector's quotations, his drawings, his scraps of famous poetry: "Come live… — Allegra Goodman Copy Share Image
“children who are blessed with happy childhoods almost never grow up to become famous writers.” — Joan Schenkar Copy Share Image
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
I'm not a fan of the working class being mocked, including by some of our famous writers - even those who came… — Melvyn Bragg Copy Share Image
Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them.… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps… — Colin Wilson Copy Share Image
If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who… — Judith Barrington Copy Share Image
That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing.… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know,… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of… — Diane Wakoski Copy Share Image
“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between… — Gabriel García Márquez Copy Share Image
“Why is it that if you say you don’t enjoy using an e-reader, or that you aren’t going to get one till… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“In those days there was no money to buy books. Books you borrowed from the rental library of Shakespeare and Company, which… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
