Dwarfs Quote by John Updike

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

— Peter Carey

I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous.

— Vince Gill

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind…

— Doug TenNapel

Unfortunately many young writers are more concerned with fame than with their own work... It's much more important to write than to be written…

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

I'm a novelist who read a lot as a kid. When you grow up on books and then grow up to write books, famous…

— Anonymous

I don't think about being famous, really. Being an author, I don't generally get stopped as I walk down the street. It's not like…

— Rick Riordan

A lot of being a writer doesn't have anything to do with writing. It's ironic - I have to squeeze the books in, even…

— Augusten Burroughs

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people…

— Fran Lebowitz

I've learned over the years that big-name writers might be treated fairly by the media conglomerates that dominate publishing today. But the average author…

— Thomas Hauser

Being famous is wicked. But it's better to be normal.

— Rupert Grint