Attainment Quote by Ernest Hemingway

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

— Ernest Hemingway

“A writer should be on a quest to get better and better with each book. May it be a never-ending quest.”

— Mark Rubinstein

With each book you write you have to learn how to write that book - so every time, you have to start all over…

— Dani Shapiro

You really need to approach each book as if you have been a failure. . . . If you start to believe your flap-copy,…

— Louise Erdrich

The way I feel about every book is this: you don't finish it, you abandon it. All of my books have in some sense…

— Russell Banks

“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope that enough…

— Mark L Lloyd

The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no…

— Cyril Connolly

I know that the way to be a really successful writer is to write the same kind of book over and over again. Find…

— Neil Gaiman

“To be a successful fiction writer you have to write well, write a lot … and let ‘em know you’ve written it! Then rinse…

— Gerard de Marigny

[A writer] must try to think clearly, to feel deeply, to write honestly. If he is fortunate he will make a living, but his…

— Lawrence Clark Powell

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

I always grew up with the idea that in order to be a successful writer, I should have a book published.

— Leandra Medine