Failure Quote by Rafael Reig

“I hate being a writer. i tend to stick my emotions in things that cannot reciprocate. I've become a whore for my craft.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“If I could choose I would rather be happy than write.”

— Jean Rhys

“If you don't love what you're writing, stop right now: it's not worth your time and certainly not the reader's.”

— Don Roff

“Writers are often given the gift of being spectacularly unhappy, so that they can record the full depth of feeling.”

— Grace Bridges

“Honestly...this is why I write. I write to get the happy ending I sometimes feel is eluding me. I write for my sanity.”

— Debora Dennis

“Writing turns you into somebody who's always wrong. The illusion that you may get it right someday is the perversity that draws you on.”

— Philip Roth

“It's like all of the thoughts and feelings that i had scribbled down were lost along with the journals that held them. But i…

— Kyung-sook Shin

“Nothing that happens to a writer--however happy, however tragic--is ever wasted.”

— P.D. James

“No happiness in the writer, no happiness in the reader.”

— Gabrielle Dubois

“Beware of being only a writer.”

— Miranda Paul

“I choose to write because it's perfect for me. It's an escape, a place I can go to hide. It's a friend, when I…

— Alysha Speer

“Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing anything else.”

— Gloria Steinem