I’ve come to a point where I’d rather fail as a writer than succeed as a lawyer, and I need to try and fail or try and succeed, but I need to do it.

I would rather try to succeed and fail than try to do nothing and succeed.

A writer is always someone, to me, who has failed at something else in life.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

I would rather fail in a cause that would ultimately succeed, than succeed in a cause that would ultimately fail.

When I have tried and failed, I shall have failed.

I would rather be beaten in Right than succeed in Wrong.

I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

As a writer, one has to be willing to be wrong, willing to make mistakes. I’ve put everything on the table and accepted the fact that I may come up short. And, if (or when) I do, that’s okay.

To learn to succeed, you must first learn to fail.

I'm drawn to failure. I feel that I'm contending with it constantly in my own life.

As soon as I did my first five minutes of stand-up I knew that I would rather be a failure at comedy than a success in marketing.

It’s better to fail while striving for something wonderful, challenging, adventurous, and uncertain than to say, ‘I don’t want to try because I may not succeed completely.

When was the last time you failed or faced rejection as a writer and how did you cope with it and what did you learn from the experience?