Feelings Quote by Graham Joyce

“There are many good reasons for writing that have nothing to do with being published. Writing is a powerful search mechanism, and one of…

— William Knowlton Zinsser

I felt that I had to write. Even if I had never been published, I knew that I would go on writing, enjoying it…

— Gwendolyn Brooks

I suppose if I didn't write for a living and it couldn't be published, I would have wanted to write anyway. I think there's…

— Decca Aitkenhead

The whole excitement for writing anything is quite intense. And for a day or two, you think you've done everything extremely well. The problems…

— Tom Stoppard

Write every day. Don't ever stop. If you are unpublished, enjoy the act of writing—and if you are published, keep enjoying the act of…

— Rick Bass

This experience of getting so lost in my writing that I lose track of time, or of anything outside the imagined world, is a…

— David Ignatius

For a while I never show anybody what I'm writing, and during that time I need the feeling that publishing is only an option.…

— Daniel Kehlmann

It's an awful feeling to write something that you feel is really important... and to feel that you're being published by people who really…

— Alice Walker

Most writers want to share their essay or book much too quickly. Those who accept the pain of hard work and revising are those…

— Lee Gutkind

People will tell you that writing is too difficult, that it's impossible to get your work published, that you might as well hang yourself.…

— Anonymous

People wanted to get me published, and my early work was so weird that they weren't getting anywhere. I thought, okay, I'll do something…

— Nell Zink

I've found a bit of success in my career, and I'm very relieved by it, but the success that comes after a book is…

— Lauren Grodstein