Failure Quote by John Gourley

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that…

— Sherwood Smith

There's not much to be said about the period except that most writers don't reach it soon enough.

— William Zinsser

It was tough to cope with the pressure of having to talk about menstruation, but now with 'Newsweek' splashing it as the cover story,…

— Rupi Kaur

I think there have been some periods when the writing almost became a bit of a burden.

— Leo Ornstein

The period. Punctuation mark to all, but public enemy number one to women.

— Laura S

We thought a magazine, even a self proclaimed literary review, had to be involved in politics. We felt sex was healthy and made (then)…

— Barney Rosset

I'm the first girl to say the word 'period' on television.

— Courteney Cox

So much magazine writing is playing to an empty room. You work like a plow horse, your words get printed on a half-million or…

— Jonathan Miles

“You were right the first time, Cathy. It was a stupid, silly story. Ridiculous! Only insane people would die for the sake of love.…

— V.C. Andrews

One of the things I liked about writing for a magazine was a kind of anonymity. When you do books, it's different than magazine…

— Hilton Als

I never admit to wishing I'd written something by another author, but if my name mysteriously appeared on the title page of 'The Guns…

— H. W. Brands

What made the magazine so popular was, even before I started writing the philosophy, there was a point of view in the magazine.

— Hugh Hefner