Doe Quote by E. L. Doctorow

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

— Philip Roth

Most things good for writing are bad for life.

— Lorrie Moore

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

— Garrison Keillor

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother…

— William Faulkner

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Moreover, people invariably take a greater interest in the suffering of others than in their well-being. Hence writers must constantly fight against the most…

— Minae Mizumura

On the whole, anything that gets you writing and keeps you writing is a good thing. Anything that stops you writing is a bad…

— Neil Gaiman

A piece of writing is a dangerous thing," he said. "It can change your life.

— Tobias Wolff

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is…

— Mary McCarthy

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“...a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend…

— E. B. White