Quotes About Recognition

I never set out to become 'famous.' I mean, when you're 14 you think 'I'm gonna become a writer and people will want my autograph and that'll be cool,' but you grow up and you learn that's just not how the world works. I resigned myself to the fact that I would probably never be published and if I did it probably wouldn't be a big deal.

TV showrunners have become known entities to people who watch television in the way that movie directors have been known to filmgoers for a long time. When I started out as a writer and producer in television, I never had the slightest expectation that fame would be part of the job.

Initially it was so important for me to be credited as a producer, play all these instruments and be the sole writer on everything. I think especially as a woman, you want to be taken seriously as a musician, as a producer.

I'm not one of those writers that sits worrying about posthumous fame.

I broke in with four hits, and the writers promptly declared they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression.

All writers want to know that someone is reading their work, taking them seriously. It provides a kind of moral support.

The greatest thing about having done 'Orange' are the doors that have opened for me, and people have been able to see me, like the executives and the casting directors - also, all of the fantastic directors and writers for independent films.

All my success belongs to those who have contributed in my pursuit of art, ranging from writers and directors to makeup artists, lighting crew, etc.

You can look at the New York Times Bestseller List and you can be pretty sure that the writers on that list don't know each other very well.

Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.

Indonesian writers are so far behind in terms of global exposure compared with the Philippines and Japanese writers.

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

The first story I ever sold was to 'Argosy' magazine, which no longer exists. That issue also contained work by several other more celebrated writers, like Ray Bradbury - so I felt I had at least one toe on the ladder.

Many of the writers I admire - Melville, Dickinson, Kafka - were virtually invisible during their lifetimes. Art, I think, often has to dance around in the void.

Best-selling writers should go to bookstores to say thanks to the booksellers, to meet fans, sign autographs, sign books, talk, whatever.

Writers have always been very underrated.

The most thankless job in our film industry is that of lyricists. Next in the list are writers. These two don't get any recognition at all, whereas they have the most important roles in every film today.

Writers in Britain aren't really celebrities. You become kind of a darling of a small set.

There're so many great writers out there who aren't getting the exposure they deserve.

With contemporary writers, I often buy books and then realise I've bought them before.

I was very pleased, obviously, to have outsold such great writers. But I'm not insane - I do realize that I am a popular writer who people buy to take on vacation.

In fact, I think for a lot of writers, it's so hard to be read.

My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.