Writing Quote by John Collier

“Nothing is more painful to me than the disdain with which people treat second-rate authors, as if there were room only for the first-raters.”

— Charles Augustin Sainte-Beuve

“I still wanted to prove that I was the best of all the second-rate writers. I refused all further requests to write journalism and…

— Koonchung Chan

“You don’t become a good writer overnight. It takes persistence and repetition to gain mastery.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“A writer edits his thoughts more thoroughly the more readers he has. You can tell I only have two readers, myself included.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Becoming a better writer is going to help you become a better reader, and that is the real payoff.”

— Anne Lamott

“If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.”

— Anne Lamott

“All you have to do is put one word after another, and remember how great it feels to be a writer.”

— Stephanie Lennox

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

“I was a wannabe who was actually unable to write because I had nothing to say, who wasn’t honest enough with himself to draw…

— Karl Ove Knausgård

“If you consider yourself a writer just write.”

— Sara Gran

“My priority as a writer is that my reader's entertainment comes first, second, and last.”

— B.J. Kibble