Affirmation Quote by Gao Xingjian

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

— Gore Vidal

“Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a…

— Julia Cameron

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel.

— Ian Rankin

“I heard a famous author say once that the hardest part of writing a book was making yourself sit down at the typewriter. I…

— Madeleine L'Engle

“Most novels, if they are successful at all, are original in the sense that they report the existence of an area of society, a…

— Doris Lessing

There are some works which the authors must consign unpublished to posterity, however uncertain be the event, however hopeless be the trust. He that…

— Samuel Johnson

Literary success of any enduring kind is made by refusing to do what publishers want, by refusing to write what the public wants, by…

— Lafcadio Hearn

“It also seems that the unhappy writers are the enduring writer. Hampered or limited by their suffering, literature becomes their focus and salvation, forcing…

— Cirilo F. Bautista

“To me, the single biggest mark of the amateur writer is a sense of hurry. Hurry to finish a manuscript, hurry to edit it,…

— Charles Finch

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

“Quite often, too, a writer who has for a time been believed to possess a great store of ordinarily profound ideas, and who is…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky