Contracts Quote by Witold Gombrowicz

I wrote what I felt I had to write, and I'm willing to put my own sanity and my reputation behind it.

— Gloria Naylor

You need to write on your own and produce your own life.

— Courtney Love

There were points in my career where I thought, 'Maybe I'm done. Maybe I've written everything there is to write.' Now I've learned that…

— Sylvia Day

I'm a writer and I've had some success.

— Carole Radziwill

There's something about coming up with something out of nothing. I work with somebody else's creation already, and I just try to make it…

— Michael Pena

Writing is a miserable, awful business. Stay with it. It is better than anything in the world.

— Ann Patchett

I have put my talent into writing, my genius I have saved for living.

— Oscar Wilde

So long as readers keep reading and my publishers keep publishing, I plan to keep on writing. I'd have to be an idiot to…

— Lee Child

I've written some great things. That's a gift, but there's consequences. Yeah, you get this great work, but you suffer. You really, really suffer.

— Frank Ocean

The only way to write is well and how you do it is your own damn business.

— A. J. Liebling

What I have written, I have written.

— Pontius Pilate

As a writer, you don't know what the hell you're doing. You're just doing it. You hope it works out well.

— John Edgar Wideman