Drawers Quote by Isaac Asimov

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to…

— Countee Cullen

Keep at it! The one talent that's indispensable to a writer is persistence. You must write the book, else there is no book. It…

— Tom Clancy

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

I think once you have done all you can to a manuscript, let it find its way in the world.

— Chinua Achebe

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing:…

— Frank Herbert

Perfecting and selling your writing is a lifelong task. If you are a persistent writer, you can expect your abilities to improve with time.…

— Winston Churchill

You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a…

— Markus Zusak

Certainly, I had a wonderful push from my publisher and got very lucky. I'm very aware of what it means to have a publisher…

— Leigh Bardugo

“Writing is difficult. You do it all alone without encouragement and without any certainty that you'll ever be published or paid or even that…

— Octavia E. Butler

You just don't give up. There have been times when everything seemed to conspire against getting a book done or printed, and I would…

— Dee Brown

The point is, I can’t tell you how to succeed. But I can tell you how not to: Give in to the shame of…

— Kathryn Stockett

As for work, without it, without painstaking work, any writer or artist definitely remains a dilettante; there's no point in waiting for so-called blissful…

— Ivan Turgenev