Circles Quote by Rupi Kaur

There are a lot of people in this country who really like my writing. And a lot of writers respect me. But the so-called…

— Hubert Selby, Jr

There are writers you admire, for the skill or the art, for the inventiveness or for the professionalism of a career well spent. And…

— James D. Houston

I hope I'm not just looked as a writer that is popular but as a writer of literary value.

— Sandra Cisneros

That has always seemed to me one of the stranger aspects of literary fame: you prove your competence as a writer and an inventor…

— J. M. Coetzee

“I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary…

— George Bernard Shaw

There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity…

— Edward P. Jones

By and large, the critics and readers gave me an affirmed sense of my identity as a writer. You might know this within yourself,…

— Ralph Ellison

“Reviewers, critics, guest editors... Such people may have an eye for literary conventions and contrivances, allusions and innovations on the art. But what are…

— Amy Tan

I've always assumed from the beginning that I had relatively few contemporaries among my readership. Not that I was consciously writing for a younger…

— William Gibson

Writers interest me for their style, their obsessions, the ways in which they approach the world.

— Amitava Kumar

Somehow, some way, incredibly enough, good writing ultimately gets recognized. If you're a really good writer and deserve that honored position, then by God,…

— Rod Serling

I've never really felt that being part of a literary community is all that important. It can be extremely detrimental to a writer. It…

— Pankaj Mishra