Authors Quote by Richelle E. Goodrich

“Writing, when all is said and done, is an attempt to understand one's own circumstance and to clarify the confusion of existence, including insecurities…

— Isabel Allende

“Sometimes a writer is punished by misunderstanding from what he had written...”

— Navnath Godse

“As most real writers do, he wrote because he had something to say, not because of any specific ambition to be a writer.”

— James Hilton

“A writer's work is never done, unless he or she has no readers.”

— K. Sean Harris

“The writer is always working on a book, even when not writing.”

— Antonio Callado

The true writer must write not the acceptable but the true.

— David Mamet

“The truth, however, was that there was very little greatness. It was almost nonexistent, invisible. But you could be sure that the worst writers…

— Charles Bukowski

“The problem with being a writer is that it’s not enough to be a writer; one must also be seen to be a writer.”

— Paul Marlowe

“Most authors would be the first to admit the best of their writing is beyond even them. It comes from someplace outside the conscious…

— K.M. Weiland

“I believe that, more than anything else, this grief of constantly having to face down our own inadequacies is what keeps people from being…

— Ann Patchett

“It is, of course, not only impossible for readers to know the intention of most, if not all, writers, but an author himself may…

— Russell M. Goldfarb

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray