Accepting Quote by Michael Crichton

“In the business of writing, what one accumulates is not experience but uncertainties.”

— Joseph Brodsky

“That's the worst aspect of being a writer: managing plausibility.”

— Chuck Palahniuk

A writer’s job is to cultivate what can go wrong.

— Chuck Palahniuk

A writer's job is to cultivate what can go wrong. You're always looking for that dramatic arc of where things can fail.

— Chuck Palahniuk

“Sometimes the writer has to learn the hard way of creating a bad work to become a best-seller yet doesn't surrender to the negative…

— Millicent Ashby

Publishing is a tough business.

— Carole Radziwill

“The financial value put on the job of the writer and the misconceptions around that make it extremely difficult to enter the profession.”

— Sara Sheridan

A writer has to take all the risks of putting down what he sees.

— James A. Baldwin

“The greatest and most difficult task of a writer is bridging the gap between reality...and the unimaginable”

— Jason W. Blair

“When writers who are just starting out ask me when it gets easier, my answer is never. It never gets easier. I don’t want…

— Dani Shapiro

“Being a writer is a more difficult job than people imagine.”

— Sara Sheridan

“However, just like any line of work, writing is a negotiation, and creative control is as elusive as financial stability. I discovered that writing…

— Alice Driver