Don't trust Quote by Peter Biskind

Posterity is always just.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

There are some critics that will just write provocative stuff to get attention, but I would say most of the time that's not the…

— Sam Esmail

I feel like people who criticize authors for being self-promotional fail to recognize that a lot of times their ability to continue writing hinges…

— Curtis Sittenfeld

Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer to buffoons…

— Valeria Luiselli

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

I don't suppose there's really any critic except posterity.

— Hortense Calisher

Good writers are visible just behind their words.

— William Zinsser

Some writers thrive on the contact with the commerce of success; others are corrupted by it. Perhaps, like losing one's virginity,it is not as…

— V. S. Pritchett

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I…

— Sandra Cisneros

I'm not sure that niceness is what we should promote in writers.

— Lorrie Moore