Conscious Quote by Lucy Calkins

Writers have to get used to launching something beautiful and watching it crash and burn. They also have to learn when to let go…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

Many writers are afraid of writing something bad, so they dont try or give up when their efforts dont lead to a masterpiece right…

— Lauren Tarshis

Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are…

— Raymond Chandler

“... there's a hormone secreted into the bloodstream of most writers that makes them hate their own work while they are doing it, or…

— Francis Ford Coppola

“Almost everyone can remember losing his or her virginity, and most writers can remember the first book he/she walked away from thinking, "I can…

— Stephen King

“When you start writing, your incredulity at the childish, incompetent, graceless thing you've done is shattering. One of the advantages of having experience as…

— Deborah Eisenberg

The thing is, for me, as a fiction writer, I don't think there's a finer testament to our lives than this thing that's being…

— Joshua Ferris

When talented people write badly, it's generally for one of two reasons: Either they're blinded by an idea they feel compelled to prove of…

— Robert McKee

People who want to write either do it or they don't. At last I began to say that my most important talent - or…

— Octavia Butler

I always counsel aspiring novelists that passion is the most important quality for a writer to possess - technique can be taught, but that…

— Lisa Kleypas

One of the reasons writers are never satisfied with their work is because they're always striving to do better.

— JoAnn Ross

“Who knows why we do it? And when we've done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That's what makes a writer…

— Chloe Thurlow