Meetings Quote by Gloria Steinem

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

If you're a writer, you're always working.

— Alan Furst

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

— Chuck Palahniuk

At the end of the day, I think the only way to do the kind of job a writer does is push everything aside…

— Marc Guggenheim

Not writing is probably the most exhausting profession I've ever encountered.

— Fran Lebowitz

I've read somewhere that when you're writing, you should stop while you're doing well so you always want to go back to work.

— Glenn Frey

It's one of the strangest attributes of this profession that when we writers get exhausted writing one thing, we relax by writing another.

— Dan Simmons

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You…

— Kameron Hurley

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

“Sometimes when one cannot stand the story or novel one is working on, it helps to write something else—a different story or novel, or…

— John Gardner

I get so used to working with writers that my prime occupation is development.

— Ridley Scott