Done Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

If it's compelling and engaging enough, customers will consider paying for it. If we don't deliver something that has value, we won't expect value…

— Bobby Kotick

The writer cannot expect to be excused from the task of reeducation and regeneration that must be done. In fact, he should march right…

— Chinua Achebe

As a writer you can and should expect to hear conflicting responses to your story.

— John Dufresne

When things are going well, you do have the sense that what you’re writing is being fed to you in some way. Auden compared…

— Martin Amis

“Every book contains a secret – even the writer doesn't always know what it is.”

— Carla H. Krueger

The secret of becoming a writer is to write, write and keep on writing.

— Ken MacLeod

“Then, at last, sitting on her stretcher-bed, she took from the very bottom of her pack an old peacock-blue scarf folded around a heavy,…

— Anonymous

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.

— Virginia Woolf

“If you want to write, here's a secret: the writer's struggle is overrated, a con game, a cognitive distortion, a self-fulfilling prophecy, the best…

— Roy Peter Clark

You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly…

— Mark Twain

“No one has any right to tell you that the way you perceive yourself is wrong. Because by doing so, they also discourage the…

— Kamand Kojouri

You cannot perceive what you are not in the vibration of.

— Darryl Anka