About Quote by Kazuo Ishiguro

All writers are discontent. That's because they're aware of a potential and believe they're not reaching it.

— William Saroyan

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves…

— Tom Wolfe

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

Even the people who have had success and made money writing these books of fiction seem to feel the need to pretend it's no…

— George Murray

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

An important factor to note is that it's rare for anyone to sell a first novel written before they turned 30-35; long-format fiction tends…

— Charles Stross

Young adult fiction is getting more popular among adults because the writer is trying hard all the time to maintain the reader's interest.

— Jesse Andrews

We postpone our literary work until we have more ripeness and skill to write, and we one day discover that our literary talent wasa…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

“…the primary trait of young adult literature is that the author’s emphasis is on plot and character and not on his own brilliance. And…

— Eliot Schrefer

Novelists are stamina merchants, grinders, nine-to-fivers, and their career curves follow the usual arc of human endeavour.

— Martin Amis