Ifs Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

“After being turned down by numerous publishers, he decided to write for posterity.”

— George Ade

If you never look just wrong to your contemporaries you will never look just right to posterity - every writer has to try to…

— Randall Jarrell

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should…

— Abi Morgan

I'm not going to write for posterity. I'm going to write to make a buck.

— Elmore Leonard

If you are hoping to find your self-worth and fulfillment in other peoples' opinion of your writing, you will never find it.

— Anne Lamott

I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger…

— William Gibson

If somebody says your story is only published because you look nice in the photo, that maybe spurs you on to write.

— Nell Freudenberger

We waste a lot of time and a lot of talent trying to write for the common reader, whom we will never meet. Instead…

— Julia Cameron

You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that…

— Will Self

“Do not write to impress others. Authors who write to impress people have difficulty remaining true to themselves.”

— Guy Kawasaki

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection…

— Amiri Baraka

If you do not seek to publish what you have written, then you are not a writer and you never will be.

— Anonymous