Err Quote by Heywood Broun

“When becoming a writer don’t think of success, imagine you are throwing your book into a vast ocean with the only hope that enough…

— Mark L Lloyd

“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

Every writer knows the terror of an unexpected success. How to carry on? How to repeat it?

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Part of the writer's problem may be thee wrong kind of appreciation: hen he does work he knows to be less than he's capable…

— John Gardner

A successful author is equally in danger of the diminution of his fame, whether he continues or ceases to write.

— Samuel Johnson

A writer has to surprise himself to be worth reading.

— Bernard Malamud

To anyone who knows a writer, never underestimate the power of your encouragement.

— Matthew Reilly

Every writer secretly hopes that what he or she has written will endure.

— Jonathan Coleman

Failure on the other hand is infectious. The world is full of charming failures (for all charming people have something to conceal, usually their…

— Cyril Connolly

One of the things my success as an author has forced me to face is how dysfunctional... Maybe that's a strong word, but how…

— Michel Faber

Unless a writer lives with a periodic delusion of his greatness, he will not continue writing. He must believe, against all reason and evidence,…

— Leonard Bishop

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

— William Saroyan