Discouraged Quote by Ron Chernow

I wrote six nonfiction books before getting into narrative fiction with 'Robopocalypse,' including 'How to Survive a Robot Uprising.' My goal all along was…

— Daniel H. Wilson

No matter how long my day job hours were, I always made time to write. I wrote fiction, short stories, and poetry. I never…

— Lisa Joy

When I wrote nonfiction, my best work was the really personal stuff.

— Ann Patchett

I wrote fiction during my entire childhood, from age 4 to 18, and started writing plays when I went to Yale and Oxford.

— Taiye Selasi

The first seven years that I wrote fiction, I sent out stories and a novel and made a total of $25.

— Jess Walter

Whenever I wrote fiction, people always seemed to think that what I wrote was true, that it was entirely autobiographical. And when I would…

— Jonathan Ames

I started writing nonfiction because nonfiction is well-suited to subjects that, if you wrote them as fiction, people would say, "I don't believe this.…

— Debra Monroe

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

I've always loved to write, and I wrote fiction all my life. That's what I thought I was going to do in my life…

— Jake Shears

Well, I do expect a lot of myself. I'm a harsh critic because I know what I'm capable of. I have hit those occasional…

— Dave Stevens

I am profoundly in the D's - discouraged, depressed, disheartened, disgusted.

— Alice Dunbar Nelson

I think it's very easy to get discouraged early on.

— Alice Lowe