Famous Writers Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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If you could have a famous writer, dead or alive, write an obituary for you and really puff you up to have been something you…
— Padgett Powell
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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. You know, my fantasy of…
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame.
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.
— Ken Kesey
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That famous writer’s block is a myth as far as I’m concerned. I think bad writers must have a great difficulty writing. They don’t want…
— Gore Vidal
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Maybe it goes without saying that if you want to become a famous writer before you’re dead, you’ll have to write something. But the folks…
— Ariel Gore
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The routines of almost all famous writers, from Charles Darwin to John Grisham, similarly emphasise specific starting times, or number of hours worked, or words…
— Oliver Burkeman
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If you want help in starting to write memoirs, you don't want to fall into the clutches of a famous writer who has been hired…
— Judith Barrington
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Finally and most important of all, authenticity means that you must do what you do the way you do it and allow everyone else the…
— Iyanla Vanzant
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Being a famous writer is a little like being a tall dwarf. You're on the edge of normality.
— John Updike
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My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers - it's what my children call my 'dead author wall.' I have signatures from Mark…
— Debbie Macomber
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I imagined being a famous writer would be like being like Jane Austen.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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I thought if only I had a keen, shapely bone structure to my face or could discuss politics shrewdly or was a famous writer Constantin…
— Sylvia Plath
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For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or the famous writers.…
— Anna Funder
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Our most famous writers are Faulkner and Eudora Welty and Flannery O'Connor. It would make sense that the poetry would reflect some of those same…
— Robert Morgan
Who Wrote These Famous Writers Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Famous Writers Quotes as follows: