Accomplish Quote by Patrick deWitt

Everybody knows by now that there's a gazillion books on me either out or coming out in the near future. So I'm encouraging anybody…

— Bob Dylan

Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have…

— Liv Ullmann

“I do enjoy writing, and I hope someone gets something interesting out of this book. I already have. Now, If I ever have to…

— Neil Young

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging,…

— Susan Orlean

If you're well-known, you're at the risk of becoming your own character. When you're alone, as a writer, you have to be unknown, putting…

— Antonio Munoz Molina

With this book, I truly hope to reach everyone that I don't bump into on the street and share my story.

— Teri Hatcher

My writing is a very authentic journey of discovery. I'm going out there to learn who I am. My readers, consequently, take the same…

— Ted Dekker

It's really hard to get a book published, even a good book, but the better the book is the better chance it has of…

— Karen Thompson Walker

When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first.…

— James A. Baldwin

Nobody told me how hard it was going to be to get published. I wrote four novels that nobody wanted, sent them out all…

— Jerry Spinelli

Forget being 'discovered.' All you can do is write. If you write well enough, and are stubborn enough to embrace failure, and if you…

— Jess Walter

Every couple of years when your book comes out then you have to go into these fights with the publisher and the publicist and…

— Robert Greene