Hard Quote by Gillian Flynn

There are so many people who write really interesting work and try super hard and still don't get published.

— Micah Perks

I know important literary writers who can't get published.

— Frederick Busch

There's a word for a writer who never gives up: published.

— Anonymous

Ninety-five percent of all writers who write do not get published, but 100 percent of all writers write because they have a voice in…

— Steve Berry

I know people who are really talented at writing, and they just don't ever make it happen because they're also good at other things.

— John Brandon

Real writers write because they love to write. They don't write for public acclaim.

— Chuck Palahniuk

No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.

— David Foster Wallace

Writing is not a great profession as a lot of writers proclaim. I write because this is something I can do. Another thing—very often…

— Ha Jin

Writers are always a great nuisance to publishers. If they could do without them, they would.

— Fay Weldon

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

— Greg Egan

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold

If there's any single talent a writer needs, it's persistence. If you can keep at your writing and you can learn as you write,…

— Octavia Butler