Doe Quote by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks.…

— Peter Mayle

There are times that everyone hates his or her job. Were they freed from the economic consequences of having these jobs, they'd drop out…

— Ben Shapiro

Next to the defeated politician, the writer is the most vocal and inventive griper on earth. He sees hardship and unfairness wherever he looks.…

— Peter Mayle

It is the incompetent and the neglected artist who charges the public with ignorance, stupidity, and indifference. He raves loudly, but he is incomprehensible,…

— Walter J. Phillips

Who to patch up his fame, or fill his purse, Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat…

— Charles Churchill

“He had started out the way nearly all writers do, and I'd seen it a hundred times--amateurs transformed into gibbering wrecks by actually being…

— Colin Bateman

The writer must be in it; he can't be to one side of it, ever. He has to be endangered by it. His own…

— Arthur Miller

Writers who do crap work believe they have turned in spun gold and all their little darlings must be defended.

— Ben Domenech

You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do…

— Harper Lee

“When dealing with writers it breaks down like this: a regular writer is your average everyday megalomaniac. Like every artist, there's a part of…

— Hannah Strom-Martin

“Any writer or journalist who wants to retain his integrity finds himself thwarted by the general drift of society rather than by active persecution.…

— George Orwell

“He made writing look easy and critics hate that. They like evidence of a struggle, of creative agony, wringing the masterpiece out of one’s…

— Jessica Zafra