Writer Success Quotes

Readers have a loyalty that cannot be matched anywhere else in the creative arts, which explains why so many writers who have run out of gas can keep coasting anyway, propelled on to the bestseller lists by the magic words AUTHOR OF on the covers of their books.

If you don't believe in yourself, and you don't have the fortitude to make that dream happen, why should the hotshots in the publishing world take a chance on you? I don't believe that you need an MFA to be a writer, but I do think you need to take some good workshops.

And the truth is that if a writer is successful, you gain readers. It benefits all the writers. It's important for all the writers that as many of us as possible be successful.

Writing offers fairly large rewards to a few successful people, but the rewards come late, and most writers are failures.

Write a thousand words a day and in three years you'll be a writer!

I don't know if she should worry too much, I mean some of our greatest writers have had movies made of their books, lots of Hemingway novels were turned into movies, it doesn't hurt the book.

The way you get your script to the right people is that you put it in an envelope. It's easy. The difficult bit is writing something that is so good people will take a punt on a brand new writer.

Productivity is a relative matter. And it's really insignificant: What is ultimately important is a writer's strongest books.

A writer can't afford to just focus on writing and leave marketing aside in today's competitive market.

There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support that allowed them to build audiences.

Every writer prefers good reviews over bad ones, and every writer wants to have lots of readers. But if it doesn't happen, that's fine too. Perhaps I won't throw a party then; I'll simply go home and keep writing.

I always wanted to be a writer but everyone kept telling me it was impossible to break into the field or make money. I've proven them wrong on both counts.

As a writer, I first felt successful before I was published.

If you want to be a writer, you write. Everybody wants to get published. You gotta play your long game.

The only difference between a good writer who publishes a book and a good writer who doesn't is that the writer who publishes actually finished her book.