Book Quote by Edward Abbey

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else’s work…

— Chris Stocking

For a true writer each book should be a new beginning where he tries again for something that is beyond attainment. He should always…

— Ernest Hemingway

“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

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

Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for…

— Evelyn Waugh

“Writing your book is not the end all of your strategy. It is a powerful catalyst that will push you to the top of…

— Kytka Hilmar-Jezek

Readers want a good book; it's a writer's job to give it to them.

— Sylvia Day

I think people become consumed with selling a book when they need to be consumed with writing it.

— Ann Patchett

“If you don’t put 99 percent of yourself into the writing, there will be no publishing career. There’s the writer and there’s the author.…

— Andre Dubus III

“Write and keep writing, not because people will like it, but because someone may get a kick out of thrashing your book.”

— Magus Tor

The first thing a writer has to do is find a new source of income.

— Ellen Gilchrist