Heart Quote by Ludwig van Beethoven

Writing is simply something you must do. It's rather like virtue in that it is its own reward.

— Harper Lee

A writer has to live with a sense of honor.

— Irwin Shaw

If you want to take writing on, you should pay writing the respect it deserves, which is to say, reading it.

— Hilton Als

Don’t underestimate this gift of finding a place in the writing world: if you really work at describing creatively on paper the truth as…

— Anne Lamott

People who write for reward by way of recognition or monetary gain don't know what they're doing. They're in the category of those who…

— Harper Lee

Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

I have a reputation for writing all kinds of hard-core, violent things.

— Brian Azzarello

Writing is its own reward.

— Henry Miller

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself,…

— Ralph Ellison

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

— Gloria Naylor

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God,…

— Rod Serling

Writing has made me rich-not in money but in a couple hundred characters out there, whose pursuits and anguish and triumphs I've shared. I…

— Wright Morris