Writing Accomplishments Quotes

The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

Just for me - obviously, not all writers think this - but for me, I feel like seeing my book in Target and Barnes & Noble is pretty successful.

There's no demand for a body of work, though writers will be criticized for not having produced one.

Didn't you know I'm going to be the greatest, most entertaining author and artist in the world? Well, don't feel badly, I didn't either!

I have written two nonfiction books, I'm embarrassed to say.

I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

I've been really lucky to work with some of the best writers in the business.

I write a good amount. I've been gathering up a backlog of stuff and maybe I'll do something with it someday, but I don't want to talk about it just yet because that would jinx it.

It's not as if I've been unlucky. My books have been published and reviewed. I haven't lived through terrible literary suffering!

I've written a lot of prose. I just haven't published it.

I had been writing professionally since 1988.

When I look back at my career as an author, I don't look at the first book that was ever published as to where my career began - I look to the first book that I ever wrote.

I wrote a great deal... but very little of any importance; there are not more than four of five papers which I can still remember with some satisfaction.

If anybody asks me what I have accomplished, I will say all I have accomplished is that I have written a few good sentences.

I think now I'm up to something like 85 different titles that I've published.

In the first year, 1988, I wrote and sold 3 novels.

I've been writing full-time since 1978.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

I think I've had a certain amount of success at making phrases. I'm a good writer. But obviously, I'm incredibly flattered and pleased when people remember things that I say.

I have always loved to read, and now that I have penned 10 novels and a few magazine articles, I have fallen seriously in love with writing stories and seeing them go out into the world. It's magical, you know?

You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one.

What's important about me is that I really have, in ways I never could have foreseen when I was young, a writing career that's reached a lot of different places.

I just feel really fortunate to build a career as a writer.

When you tell them you're a writer, they say, 'What have you written?' And then you've got to tell them what you've done. I don't ask a plumber what he does. Then I have to explain what I've done, and I haven't really, you know. I've just told some stories.