About Quote by Kevin Barry

I think it's good when people don't write good things about your work. I mean, what a great compliment it is to be called…

— Julian Schnabel

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

— Lorrie Moore

I think writers can get a little melodramatic sometimes about their work, and it helps me not to do that, to just say, "Well,…

— Donald Miller

I think the crucial thing in the writing career is to find what you want to do and how you fit in. What somebody…

— James A. Michener

Writing is one of those jobs that everyone has an opinion on. I don't think this is a bad thing.

— Jack Thorne

Being a good writer may result in your being nicer to more people, having a bigger positive impact.

— Marty Nemko

Writing seems like the only job where what you think and feel really matters.

— Richard North Patterson

I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people.

— Dorothy Allison

I've gotten a lot of livid letters about the awfulness of my work. I've never known what to make of it. Why do people…

— Lynda Barry

The thing about writing jobs is you can't really turn them down. When there's an opportunity, and it's something I want to do, I…

— Dan Mintz

My job is to get people to write something truthful, something about truth and beauty - wherever they are - and to understand how…

— Grace Paley

Theres really not much that people can pick on me for my work, so obviously they find other reasons to write something bad about…

— Sonakshi Sinha