Book Quote by James A. Michener

I think I'm a writer, and it's my job. People in other professions are expected to do their jobs all the time. Why shouldn't…

— Richard Greenberg

I feel as long as people enjoy what they read and learn something more, I have done my job as a writer.

— Ravi Subramanian

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people…

— Lynda Barry

A lot of people don't know what I do. In the industry they take credit for work because to some degree it makes them…

— Angie Stone

I've always been a pretty hard worker. That's how I've written over a hundred books.

— Colin Wilson

I think people ease into this careerist professionalism, so if you're a writer it's your job to manufacture books as opposed to writing them…

— Arundhati Roy

I think it's always wrong of writers to make too much of the pains of their labors, because most people have much worse jobs…

— Richard Flanagan

When I write a book, I write a book for myself; the reaction is up to the reader. It's not my business whether people…

— Paulo Coelho

“Writing a complete novel is time consuming, frustrating, nerve wrecking, and most of the time your work is under valued, under appreciated, and taken…

— Carl Henegan

Writing a book is about me doing the work to get from the obsessive particular to something that reaches out of that in some…

— Lucy Corin

There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it…

— Dominic Cooper

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day…

— Timothy Egan