Brain Quote by Gail Simone

There are writers who will do whatever they are told regardless of the circumstances - these are called 'hacks.' Your job isn't to make…

— Gail Simone

All writers are crazy. So never mind what the editors and your family and your critique group tells you. Submit your manuscripts and keep…

— MaryJanice Davidson

When I write, I don't allow the fear of consequences to interfere with the writing process. I have in the past paid for my…

— Taslima Nasrin

There is a great deal that either has to be given up or be taken away from you if you are going to succeed…

— Susan Sontag

If you write something and they all tell you it is bad - editors, critics, everybody - think it over and you may become…

— Brenda Ueland

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to…

— Lee Child

When it is my editor telling me how to rewrite a story, I listen and do what she asks because I have learned that…

— Kate DiCamillo

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

— Ann Patchett

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard…

— Sue Grafton

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

— Leonard Cohen

Being an editor has been a source of great satisfaction, but writing is the thing I truly love.

— Bill Keller

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.

— Paul Engle