A famous writer who
A famous writer who wants to continue writing has to be constantly defending himself against fame. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Famous Writers
It’s none of their
It’s none of their business that you have to learn how to write. Let them think you were born that way. Ernest Hemingway
There is nothing to
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Ernest Hemingway
Begin with an individual,
Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created – nothing. F. Scott Fitzgerald
The best young writers
The best young writers are convinced they need blurbs from famous writers before an editor will even read the first page of a manuscript. If this is true, then the editorial system that prevails today stinks. And let’s start reforming it. Diane Wakoski
My office walls are
My office walls are covered with autographs of famous writers – it’s what my children call my ‘dead author wall.’ I have signatures from Mark Twain, Earnest Hemingway, Jack London, Harriett Beecher Stowe, Pearl Buck, Charles Dickens, Rudyard Kipling, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, to name a few. Debbie Macomber
It seemed perfectly possible
It seemed perfectly possible that, in spite of my certainty of my own genius, I might die of some illness, or perhaps even in a street accident, before I had ever glimpsed the meaning of life. My moods of happiness and self-confidence convinced me that I had a destiny to become a famous writer, and … Read more
The Revelation was my
The Revelation was my master’s project, and after I finished it, I thought I’d send it off to a publisher and within a year or so be a rich and famous writer. Two years later I finally sold it. For a whopping $4,000. A year after that, it finally came out. Which explains why there … Read more
Close the door. Write
Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It’s the one and only thing you have to offer. Barbara Kingsolver
Don’t try to figure
Don’t try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. Barbara Kingsolver