Career Quote by Robert E. Howard

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful…

— Michael Tolkin

Without question, I've either got to be a writer, or I fail.

— Andrew Vachss

I felt a failure because I couldn't sustain myself from what I earned from my writing. My day jobs were what mattered, and it…

— Sandra Cisneros

My failure, during the first five or six years of my art training, to get set in the right direction, and the disappointment which…

— Laurence Housman

I actually went into writing first to supplement my income, which was a strange thing to do, and actually failed.

— Steve Toltz

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

By the end of the first decade of writing, I considered myself a confirmed failure in the eyes of the world.

— Ben Fountain

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

— Natalie Goldberg

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've failed at more things than anyone I know. No one remembers the failures.

— Vinod Khosla

I didn't know it was possible to be successful as a writer, so I wasn't afraid to fail.

— Jamaica Kincaid

I came from a practical family. The idea of being a writer seemed impossible to me.

— Crystal Hana Kim