Failing Quote by Ray Bradbury

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

— Natalie Goldberg

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

I assume as a writer that most of the time I'm going to fall down and fail.

— Amy Bloom

If you write one story, it may be bad; if you write a hundred, you have the odds in your favor.

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

I do think that short story writing is often a matter of luck.

— Robert Sheckley

I go into every story thinking I'm going to fail. I think about that all the time - I think it's going to be…

— Mary Ellen Mark

“The danger that keeps me just a little frightened with every book I write, however, is that I’ll overreach myself once too often and…

— Orson Scott Card

“The benefit of writing short stories is that they allow you to get rejected sooner. If you write a novel, it could take years…

— Joseph Harold Bunting

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

— Malcolm Cowley

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

— Gail Sher