Accustomed Quote by William Hazlitt

A common quality I see of people who are successful is that they are voracious readers.

— Matt Mullenweg

No publication is a staple of life. It's not bread and water. You have to make it noteworthy in people's minds and even in…

— Timothy White

The most esteemed journalists are precisely the most servile. For it is by making themselves useful to the powerful that they gain access to…

— Walter Karp

“Journalists...chronicle our everyday lives. They reveal truths and information that the public deserves to know, and they provide a record for posterity, so that…

— Celeste Ng

What matters is not publication or success (success is bad for your prose) but the practice of the imaginative act. Our damaged values depend…

— Janet Burroway

The newspaper journalists like to believe the worst; they can sell more papers that way, as one of them told me himself; for even…

— Margaret Atwood

“Usually the recipe for a bestseller is to give people what they want. My challenge is and was: Give them what they do not…

— Umberto Eco

For me, just being published feels like success.

— Samantha Shannon

As journalists, we need to find every avenue to distribute our work, and try to be so good that we become increasingly more influential…

— David Remnick

In the first place, all books that get fairly into the vital air of the world were written by the successful class, by the…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

When we started publishing, you had to be better than good. You had to be excellent. But as long as people are reading, I…

— Sandra Cisneros