Believe Quote by Tony Kushner

I suddenly realized I was a writer of wide reputation and most of it bad.

— Theodora

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

A man makes his reputation not by what he writes, but by what others write about him.

— Vikrant Parsai

My reputation is a media creation.

— John Lydon

Many fiction writers write for the critics or for themselves; they forget the common reader. I never do. I don't think journalism clashes with…

— Isabel Allende

As a writer I'm merely a journalist who has learned to write better than others.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Other people, some other writers, will win certain accolades or sell in far greater numbers than me - and I'm a legitimate best-selling author…

— James Ellroy

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

— Laurell K. Hamilton

I think I'm also more open to other writers being present and listening to other opinions, whereas before I was going through my angsty…

— Michelle Branch

What happens is I speak to people outside of my circle of friends and they have already formed an opinion of me based on…

— Robbie Williams

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

I read somewhere that writers, as they get older, become more and more perfectionist. Which may be because they think more highly of themselves…

— Tom Wolfe