Writer Challenges Quotes

Despite the ever-increasing financial pressures experienced by writers and the ever-decreasing space afforded by the media to books, writers are still willing to aim for quality and to take risks.

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true!

It's hard out here for a fantasy writer, after all; there's all these 'rules' I'm supposed to follow, or the Fantasy Police might come and make me do hard labor in the Cold Iron Mines.

You're gambling with something vital. Most writers get smashed egos.

Writing history is a difficult job: in the first place because what you put down has to correspond exactly to the facts; secondly, because if you permit yourself to criticize any wrongdoing, most of your readers will think that you are malevolent, or even envious.

Miserable is the fate of writers: if they are agreeable, they are offensive; and if dull, they starve.

I think that if you're a writer and a woman, then you have to take humiliation very well.

With 'Darkly Dreaming Dexter,' we as a group of writers had to take a rather thin novel and spread it out over the course of 12 episodes, and not only 12 episodes, but lay in story for everyone that's going to take you through five years.