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I started writing my own plays, and I would sell out, but after everything was said and done, I'd break even. That's being successful. — Steven Michael Quezada

The secret of successful journalism is to make your readers so angry they will write half your paper for you. — C.E.M. Joad

Successful writing is a slow, daily, meticulous form of mental illness. — Don Roff

I'm a successful novelist, and I've been a lucky one, so I don't want to cry the poor mouth. Writing has never been easy. — Richard Flanagan

The secret of being a successful writer is
write. Every writer deserves that chance. — Millicent Ashby

Above all things
read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied. — Ngaio Marsh

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful. — Ruth Ozeki

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

To become successful, one must put themselves in the paths of giants! — Lillian Cauldwell

The best way to become a successful writer is to read good writing, remember it, and then forget where you remember it from. — Gene Fowler

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter. — Evan Esar

You're successful if you can get one person to pick it up and put it on the turntable and go, Wow, thanks for writing that! — Dan Fogelberg

A successful book is not made of what is in it, but what is left out of it. — Mark Twain

People who write fiction, if they had not taken it up, might have become very successful liars. — Ernest Hemingway,

The difficulty of writing a second novel is directly proportional to how successful the first novel was, it seems. — Khaled Hosseini

It is a mean thief or a successful author that plunders the dead. — Austin O'Malley

Successful journals break the deadlock of introspective obsession — Alexandra Johnson

A successful self-publisher must fill three roles: Author, Publisher, and Entrepreneur - or APE. — Guy Kawasaki

But I wouldn't recommend writing. You can be a successful writer and never meet another soul. I'm not sure that's a good thing. — J.G. Ballard

To be successful in writing, use short sentences. — Ernest Hemingway,

If everyone could be a successful and rich author, there would be no point in working so hard. Where is the fun in that? — L.A. Jones

Writing is successful schizophrenia because I'm paid to hear voices in my head. — Jodi Picoult

I don't enjoy any of the process of writing. I enjoy it when it goes on if it zings and it has great warmth and import and it's successful. — Rod Serling

It's essential to have sacred time for writing. All successful authors have some daily commitment to keep on-track and moving forward. — Dani Shapiro

There's always pressure, a great deal of pressure, when writing, since my first books were so successful. — Nicholas Sparks

You are happy and kind; therefore, you are successful. — A.D. Posey

Why do writers write? Why do actors act? Why do painters paint? It doesn't pay much, unless you're very successful. It's who we are. — Lori Lesko

Any advice for how to be a successful author?"
"Yes. Don't be a woman. And be dead. And do both at the same time, if you can. — Michelle Franklin

For a successful writer, the secret is to have many irons in the fire. Write the next thing. — Jon Spaihts

A good book is not the same as a successful one. — Johnny Rich

The key to writing successful YA is to keep the adults out of the story as much as possible. — Beverly Cleary