Critical Quote by Iris Johansen

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

To try to write better than you do now is to risk rejection and failure. But not to risk those things in an insult…

— LouAnne Johnson

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst

I am not one of those writers that it just flows out of effortlessly. I have to sit and write and rewrite and sometimes…

— Princess Superstar

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

— Edmund White

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

You have to be an extremely good reader to appreciate what a good writer is. There are some people who are completely insensitive to…

— Robert Caro

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

There is something to be said when you have great writers, and they write, and they write.

— Jamie Hector

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right…

— Lauren Tarshis

I mean, the problem is, I think I'm a great writer.

— Aaron Eckhart

Good writers are often excellent at a hundred other things, but writing promises a greater latitude for the ego.

— John Cheever