Bigs Quote by Natalie Goldberg

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

— Natalie Goldberg

If writing is your practice, the only way to fail is not to write.

— Gail Sher

You fail only if you stop writing.

— Ray Bradbury

Failure has been my best friend as a writer. It tests you, to see if you have what it takes to see it through.

— Markus Zusak

Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.

— 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

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to…

— Countee Cullen

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing:…

— Frank Herbert

There are as many routes to writing success as there are writers who got there. My advice, however, applies across the board: read widely,…

— Therese Fowler

Paradoxically, the only thing that helps when I'm feeling despairing about writing is to write.

— Laura van den Berg

“Writing is a profession that has no real career structure and your best advice when you hit a difficulty is probably going to come…

— Sara Sheridan

And I’m drawn to failure. I often write about it, and I’m sympathetic with it, I think, because I feel I’m contending with it…

— Joyce Carol Oates