Big Quote by Tana French

Up until my first book was published, I had all this potential, people would say, and I screwed up. After it, I could say:…

— Robert M. Pirsig

Any time I screw up I feel bad about it.

— Stephen Gostkowski

My way of writing a book is completely disorganized - to hurl myself at the problem, over and over.

— Richard Bach

When somebody tells you there's something wrong with your book they're almost always right, when they tell you how to fix it they're almost…

— Cassandra Clare

After finishing a draft, no matter how rough, I almost always put it aside for a while. It doesn't matter if it's a story…

— Leslie Jamison

Screwing things up is a virtue. Being correct is never the point. I have an almost fanatically correct assistant, and by the time she…

— Robert Rauschenberg

“Screwing up is hardly a major mistake. Sometimes your wrong choices bring you to the right places.”

— Shannon L. Alder

I've screwed up a lot, but I've always admitted it.

— John Daly

With all editing, no matter how sensitive - and I've been very lucky here - I react sulkily at first, but then I settle…

— Michael Morpurgo

“The first mistake is never the one that ruins you. It’s the spiral of repeated mistakes that follows. The problem is not slipping up;…

— James Clear

When somebody on a professional scale says "you did it wrong," it has a pretty intense impact. If you don't have some kind of…

— Billy Crudup

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

— Chuck Palahniuk