Believe Quote by Ben Domenech

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

I hate to see great writers like Ringel and Ansen and Jan Stuart (among many others) being put out to pastures because print media…

— Alonso Duralde

Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

— Anne Enright

“Writers are either bullfighters, who risk all for art... or bullshitters, who make fake passes in an empty ring. To be a writer, one…

— Anonymous

“Young writers get false ideas from indiscreet praise.”

— Uncle Haskell

I suppose all writers are crazy, but if they are any good, I believe they have a terrible honesty.

— Raymond Chandler

Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect…

— Anonymous

I know writers have to be crazy. But more than that that, they have to get made and stay mad. If things don't make…

— Leon Uris

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

— JoAnn Ross

All writers start with a layer of truth, don't they? If not, their stories would be nothing but spools of cotton candy, a fleeting…

— Jodi Picoult

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing