Argument Quote by Rod Serling

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

Contemporarily, we struggle with people worried about representation sometimes. It's a burden, as artists, that we take on that limits the work. It limits…

— Dee Rees

Talented people are finding that writing for young people is as demanding of high quality as writing for adults.

— Lloyd Alexander

Whatever the reviewers feel about 'The Casual Vacancy', it is what I wanted it to be, and you can't say fairer than that as…

— J. K. Rowling

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity…

— Jack Kerouac

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

— J. K. Rowling

So I have no grounds to complain; on the contrary, writers should consider the condition of permanent controversiality to be invigorating, part of the…

— Gunter Grass

Writers should provoke disagreement.

— V. S. Naipaul

The digital revolution has wrest a little control away from corporate publishers and white, male, middle-aged critics, but the financial value put on the…

— Sara Sheridan

High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via our schooling…

— Rob Manuel

“Writers are either bullfighters, who risk all for art... or bullshitters, who make fake passes in an empty ring. To be a writer, one…

— Anonymous