Ability Quote by Winston Churchill

Success is something you should never take into consideration: if you follow it it'll elude you. It's important to really love your work as…

— Dacia Maraini

“Even great, best selling writers produce works that fall flat from expectations. This writing thing isn't easy and everything you produce won't be a…

— Nancy Arroyo Ruffin

I've always claimed that success in writing - provided of course one had what it takes to make a writer - is like success…

— Emilie Loring

You don't write for success. That takes part of your attention away from the writing. If you're really doing it, that's all you're doing:…

— Frank Herbert

There is no secret to success except hard work and getting something indefinable which we call 'the breaks.' In order for a writer to…

— Countee Cullen

Writing is really just a matter of writing a lot, writing consistently and having faith that you'll continue to get better and better. Sometimes,…

— Laura Kasischke

Why does any novelist keep writing long after they've made money? Because they've failed to write the perfect novel.

— Ian Rankin

Often, you have to fail as a writer before you write that bestselling novel or ground-breaking memoir. If you're failing as a writer -…

— J. K. Rowling

Most of the characteristics which make for success in writing are precisely those which we are all taught to repress ... the firm belief…

— Robert Anton Wilson

To make anything successful, you need a good writer.

— Paresh Rawal

If you are going to be a writer, you have to have self-belief, every writer gets rejections, they say the difference between a successful…

— Anthony Horowitz

The thing about being a writer is that you never have to ask, 'Am I doing something that's worthwhile?' Because even if you fail…

— Richard Ford