Books Quote by Christel Tait

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

Any good writer is going to be well-received and is going to not be well-received; that's how you know you're a great writer.

— Karrine Steffans

“All aspiring writers say these things: "I will not compromise and write a best seller!"—as if they could! There may be a few totally…

— May Sarton

“Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to the negative…

— Millicent Ashby

Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.

— Yann Martel

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

— William Saroyan

There are so many good authors; there's no shortage of them.

— Jeanne Calment

There is bad in all good authors: what a pity the converse isn't true!

— Philip Larkin

The hardest thing in the world for a writer is to amass a readership. So many good books come out, and so many good…

— Patrick deWitt

“Being a writer is a gift, being an author is amazing, becoming a best seller is everyone's dream”

— LaQuita Cameron

In my case, once you sell a lot of books and you are labeled a bestselling author, the serious critics are never gonna say…

— John Grisham

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

— Friedrich Nietzsche