Across Quote by Doug TenNapel

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

— Frank Ocean

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor…

— J. M. Coetzee

When you're as famous as I am, stories take on a life of their own.

— Norman Wisdom

The only time I was ever approached to write a book was when I was most famous.

— Justine Bateman

I've often had the fortune to work on projects with a small theme I find very interesting enough to pursue and to be passionate…

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

I have so many great things going on in my life that I don't need to pay attention to some writer.

— Paris Hilton

Most people write a lot of autobiography, but when I came to write autobiography I discovered that nothing interesting had ever happened to me.…

— W. P. Kinsella

I'm like a unicorn; I'm a midlist writer who hasn't done anything else but write. But because I wasn't amazingly famous, I didn't become…

— Gabrielle Zevin

Whenever I have had to write fiction, I've always had to invent a character who roughly has my background.

— V. S. Naipaul

I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I…

— Peter Robinson

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi