Dream Quote by Bryan Procter

A good many established writers seem to have the feeling that some day they are going to be found out, revealed as frauds.

— Patricia Wentworth

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

— Christopher Bollen

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

— S.M. Stirling

The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers

— Jacques Barzun

There's always a danger of writers believing their own publicity. We live in a world of puff and solicited blurb, a world of favours…

— Michael Longley

About the most originality that any writer can hope to achieve honestly is to steal with good judgment.

— Josh Billings

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as…

— V. S. Pritchett

Careful writing is important for many reasons, not least that intelligent but hurried reporters will trust the presser, resulting in a cascade of secondary…

— Dave deBronkart

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

— Norman Mailer

I think writers tend to hear a different message from the ones our friends and acquaintances intend. We see what's revealed, which makes us…

— Tom Barbash

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

— Jonathan Coleman