Authors Quote by Harper Lee

I would advise anyone who aspires to a writing career that before developing his talent he would be wise to develop a thick hide.

— Harper Lee

“The secret of being a successful writer is--write. Every writer deserves that chance.”

— Millicent Ashby

“A writer doesn't dream of riches and fame, though those things are nice. A true writer longs to leave behind a piece of themselves,…

— CK Webb

“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to talk shop…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“Becoming a writer is a lifelong journey. It cannot be learned in a day or even a month or a year. We will never…

— Shanda Trofe Write from the Heart

“The writer’s special talent is to empathize with people and imagine their lives. We know them as we write them.”

— Kay Kenyon

“He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply…

— Andrew James Pritchard

“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

“Writing is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none.”

— Jules Renard 1890

“No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist.”

— Haruki Murakami

“Reading novels needs almost as much talent as writing them,' he used to say.”

— Anthony Powell

“Don’t ever undermine writers for life is much about writing and memories are well kept through writing”

— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah