Writing Famous Writers Quotes

#1. I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself as a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.

Aberjhani

#2. Many and various are the things to which a man may feel himself drawn, but one thing there is to which no man ever felt himself drawn in any way, that is, to suffering and humiliation. This we men think we ought to shun as far as possible, and in any case that we must be compelled to it.

Soren Kierkegaard

#3. He was always being told that writers never become famous or rich, but of course that was not why he wrote, he wrote simply because he felt he had interesting stories to tell that people might like to hear.

Andrew James Pritchard

#4. Love resolves. Love. Love's deeper than the hurt.

Ian Brown

#5. Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.

Matthew Arnold

#6. When a writer doesn't show his face, he becomes a local symptom of God's famous reluctance to appear.

Don DeLillo

#7. No amount of therapy can replace the joy of revenge writing.

Mylo Carbia

#8. Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

Ally Sheedy

#9. Our photographs often live longer than us! Not forever, but only longer!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#10. To read and to write. Some writers have to be told to write. They think their job is to meet agents and have experiences and they can just be rich and famous. Their job is to write. Some really don't realize that. And you can't write unless you read.

Ursula K. Le Guin

#11. I've never tried to be famous or become a bestseller, just rich and remembered. The rest is a bonus.

Daniel Marques

#12. I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

Ken Kesey

#13. Can't pretend that growin' older never hurts.

Pete Townshend

#14. Ignorance breeds fear; the more you learn about your subject, the less fear it holds for you.

Brian Tracy

#15. If you've ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don't write as well as you do yet are rich and famous while you struggle onward, this is the reason. They are great directors.

Larry Brooks

#16. I have started a new blog W.A.R.(Writers Amongst Readers) for all those writing or reading books. Quotes, excerpts, comments from the world's greatest writers. See robinhawdonblog

Robin Hawdon

#17. As a Christian, instead of concentrating on how you feel, focus on what you know to be truth from the Word of God.

Joyce Meyer

#18. I'm a pragmatist.

Richard Sherman

#19. Money is that dear thing which,
if you're not careful, you can squander
your whole life thinking of ...

Mary Jo Salter

#20. I have a great job writing for 'The Office,' but, really, all television writers do is dream of one day writing movies. I'll put it this way: At the Oscars the most famous person in the room is, like, Angelina Jolie. At the Emmys the huge exciting celebrity is Bethenny Frankel. You get what I mean.

Mindy Kaling

#21. The vices we scoff at in others laugh at us within ourselves.

Thomas Browne