Famous Quote by Kirby Wright

I'm not the most famous guy in the world; my work is spread out across different mediums, and I never write the same kind…

— Doug TenNapel

Being famous as a writer is like being famous in a village. It's not really any very heady fame.

— Peter Carey

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor…

— J. M. Coetzee

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

— Ken Kesey

I've learned to stay away from publicity addicts, people who want to be famous for no reason.

— Paz de la Huerta

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.

— Ouida

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

Whatever fame a novelist my attain, it's always kind of an anonymous one. I can go anywhere, and no one knows who I am.

— Jonathan Kellerman

Notoriety is often mistaken for fame.

— Aesop

It's a very nice kind of quasi-fame being a writer, because you remain largely anonymous and you can have a private life, which I…

— Khaled Hosseini

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one,…

— Judy Blume

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst