Conjuring Quote by John Wesley Harding

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if…

— Joyce Maynard

I think writers are a lot like lawyers. We feed off the misfortunes of people, even ourselves.

— Gail Anderson-Dargatz

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

— J. K. Rowling

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

Readers don't work for writers. They work for themselves.

— Mohsin Hamid

Writers sometimes are paid a great deal of money, but much more frequently they're not paid or are paid only a little bit.

— Alice Mattison

One of the problems of writing is that anyone who commits themselves to that process has to believe that they're good.

— Steven Bochco

It's hard for writers to get on with their work if they are convinced that they owe a concrete debt to experience and cannot…

— Saul Bellow

Nay, Sir, those who write in them, write well, in order to be paid well.

— Samuel Johnson

Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the…

— Herbert Gold