Being successful Quote by Isaac Bashevis Singer

It takes a certain kind of mind to narrate, to work through character motivation, to be unforgiving to one's writer-self when it comes down…

— Cate Marvin

To achieve lasting literature, fictional or factual, a writer needs perceptive vision, absorptive capacity, and creative strength.

— Lawrence Clark Powell

There are three things that make a person a writer: inspiration, perspiration and desperation.

— Harlan Coben

What are the hallmarks of a competent writer of fiction? The first, it seems to me, is that he should be immensely interested in…

— H. L. Mencken

To write fiction is to think that you're doing it wrong - that your work habits are inhibiting you; that you've chosen the wrong…

— Ben Dolnick

Any one who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to…

— Henry Watson Fowler

The desire to write a novel is the single required prerequisite for writing a novel.

— Jane Smiley

“Fiction is an act of willfulness, a deliberate effort to reconcile, to rearrange, to reconstitute nothing short of reality itself. Even among the most…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

When you're a writer, you have to have the passion and the skill and the craft. It's not just enough to have the passion.…

— Harlan Ellison

The beauty of prose fiction that I see is simply that in order to create something you need only pay attention to personal exigency.

— James Kelman

A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the lack of…

— William Faulkner

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for…

— Harlan Coben