Day Quote by Rebecca Serle

“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to write, you…

— Patrick Mcmanus

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

I don't know why the world has changed so much that writers are now expected to appear in public and talk about their work.…

— Jonathan Lethem

Every writer aspires to recognition , and it comes entirely privately, without public fanfare, each time a piece of work is judged worthy of publication.

— Cynthia Ozick

I always think the insecurity is going to go away, but it's always there. Only bad writers think they're good.

— Harlan Coben

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 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

“We live in a society where the individual is far more empowered, but that brings other challenges. Once the mob gets going, it is…

— Alison Flood

Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get…

— Kate Thompson

I've never liked the publishing world's determination to pigeonhole every writer into a genre.

— Joe R. Lansdale

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day…

— Timothy Egan

“We writers constantly try to build up our own confidence by getting published, making sales, winning prizes, joining cliques or proclaiming theories. The passion…

— Boria Sax