Eight Quote by Jacqueline Briskin

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

As for how I feel about any success I've had, I just feel extremely lucky. Writing is a tough racket, and there are a…

— Donald Ray Pollock

I think that everything you do helps you to write if you're a writer. Adversity and success both contribute largely to making you what…

— Shelby Foote

I think my goal is to find a way to spend all of my time writing. I mean, sort of; true success is I'm…

— Shonda Rhimes

Writing is very hard work and knowing what you're doing the whole time.

— Shelby Foote

Success is something you should never take into consideration: if you follow it it'll elude you. It's important to really love your work as…

— Dacia Maraini

I must write each day without fail, not so much for the success of the work, as in order not to get out of…

— Leo Tolstoy

I had a crazy amount of success as a writer, which isn't normal by any means.

— Stephanie Land

It's hard work, writing, you know. Honestly, a fight every day against your own limitations. You have to squeeze books out of your brain,…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Writing is something that you can never do as well as it can be done. It is a perpetual challenge and it is more…

— Ernest Hemingway

I have been successful probably because I have always realized that I knew nothing about writing and have merely tried to tell an interesting…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller