Body Quote by Edgar Allan Poe

Some of the most untidy writers have also been the most productive. Iris Murdoch, for instance, wrote a good 30 books in a house…

— Craig Brown

Not all popular novelists are good, but all good novelists are, sooner or later, popular.

— Dean Koontz

The writers who accomplish most are those who compel thought on the highest and most profoundly interesting subjects.

— John Lancaster Spalding

There are some incredibly gifted writers in the world. You can count them on a hand. They're blessed, and they've worked at their craft,…

— David Grann

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing.

— Bonnie Friedman

There are a million talented writers who are unpublished only because they stop writing when it gets hard.

— Gillian Flynn

Not that many people, even contemporary writers, write about right now.

— Anna Deavere Smith

Successful writers are not the ones who write the best sentences. They are the ones who keep writing. They are the ones who discover…

— Bonnie Friedman

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people…

— Fran Lebowitz

I don't think writers - in general - ever achieve the fame of movie stars. For the simple reason that only a fraction of…

— Augusten Burroughs

I've always been a very prolific writer.

— Nanci Griffith

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

— Sandra Cisneros