Children Quote by C. JoyBell C

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

— Don Roff

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“There is nothing quite like the expectancy of the beginning writer, unless it is the conceit of the successful one.”

— Charles Bukowski

“The irony that all writers confront and must overcome is that the writer is afraid to commence, frightened to finish what is slowly becoming…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“A writer is bound to have varying degrees of success, and I think that that is partly an issue of how central the burden…

— John Hersey

“A good story defies the reader's expectations, and in doing so, brings them satisfaction.”

— Thomas Maltman

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

There are writers, and there are readers who want something more. They want to get at the grist of life.

— Frank Peretti

The reality of the writer's world is that you set yourself up for future disappointment with every success that you deliver because you end…

— Ashwin Sanghi

“When a writer is born into a family, the family is doomed.”

— Czelslaw Milosz