Am Quote by Miguel Syjuco

I have to believe that literature can effect change; otherwise, I would have no purpose in my life and would have wasted four years…

— Miguel Syjuco

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which…

— Laurence Housman

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

— Jamaica Kincaid

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

— Ben Fountain

I failed, many times in my life. One failure that I always remember was when my second book was rejected by 36 publishers. Many…

— Arianna Huffington

Never literary attempt was more unfortunate than my Treatise of Human Nature. It fell dead-born from the press.

— David Hume

My literary success meant nothing to me

— Taylor Caldwell

Madly, futilely, I wrote novel after novel, eight in all, that failed to find a publisher. I persisted because for me the novel was…

— William Nicholson

Don't be afraid to fail. I fail every day. I failed thousands of times writing The Book Thief, and that book now means everything…

— Markus Zusak

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

The only failure in writing is when you stop doing it. Then you fail yourself.

— Natalie Goldberg

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it…

— Sandra Cisneros