Failure Quote by Justin Cartwright

I grew up reading Updike. I remember being alarmed to find that he had published short stories by the time he was 22. I…

— Justin Cartwright

“An author is a writer who didn't give up.”

— Richard Bach

It is a pity, in my opinion, that no prize exists for the writer who best refrains from adding to the world's bad books.

— William Saroyan

I once saw John Updike get in front of a crowd and read a story that he'd written in 1958, and I just thought,…

— Jonathan Dee

“There's a word for an author who doesn't give up... published.”

— Anonymous

As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only…

— Ernest Hemingway

No writer who knows the great writers who did not receive the Prize can accept it other than with humility. There is no need…

— Ernest Hemingway

Some Pulitzer winners - novelists - have confided to me that getting the prize screwed them up. It messed with their heads. That hasn't…

— Jeffrey Eugenides

That author, however, who has thought more than he has read, read more than he has written, and written more than he has published,…

— Charles Caleb Colton

The Nobel is a ticket to one's own funeral. No one has ever done anything after he got it.

— T. S. Eliot

“Every time someone in town wins a literary award, someone will protest — why him, not me, making a big Fuss? And every time…

— Mouloud Benzadi

The Oscar seems to have been confused with the Nobel Peace Prize.

— Janet Maslin