Fame Quote by Charles Bukowski

I think of a writer as a river: you reflect what passes before you.

— Natalia Ginzburg

“A writer is a river. Everything flows and changes and we're never the same person as the one who wrote yesterday's story.”

— Aleksandr Voinov

“Put down everything that comes into your head and then you're a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff's…

— Colette

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

— Samuel Johnson

“A writer will seal his own coffin, And the interests of readers will soften, If the author insists On the usual twists, And he…

— Mark Grenier

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves,…

— CK Webb

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

He who fills His pockets with the Rocks of Misdeeds shall surely sink in the River of Good Fortune.

— Jim Davis

Money to a writer is time to write.

— Frank Herbert

“A writer must find his own grain, way, bent. ...He aspires to create new and original works. His way is alone. If he succumbs…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Nobody ever got started on a career as a writer by exercising good judgment, and no one ever will, either, so the sooner you…

— George V. Higgins

“The effectiveness of an author turns chiefly upon his getting the reputation that he should be read. But by practicing various arts, by the…

— Arthur Schopenhaur