Bars Quote by Helen Garner

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

— Fay Weldon

But if I worried too much about publishers' expectations, I'd probably paralyze myself and not be able to write anything.

— David Baldacci

Publishers seem to be in an alcoholic haze most of the time. Well, the publishers have no idea what a writer is.

— James Purdy

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to…

— Lee Child

Writing is not about making a buck, not about publishers and agents. Writing is not about feeling good. Writing is about pain, suffering, hard…

— Sue Grafton

And all writing is creating or spinning dreams for other people so they won't have to bother doing it themselves.

— Beth Henley

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

The only certainty about writing and trying to be a writer is that it has to be done, not dreamed of or planned and…

— Janet Frame

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff…

— David Sedaris

The great thing about writing is that...you can do all these antisocial things and you get paid for them and nobody ever arrests you…

— Stephen King

“To the people who insist they really do have a great idea but they just can't write, I'd say that given some of the…

— Iain Banks

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and…

— Robert De Niro