Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm…

“But alas, things can always get worse. And, for the record, I've noticed that they tend to get worse just when you start to…

— Anonymous

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

The writers we tend to universally admire, like Beckett, or Kafka, or TS Eliot, are not very prolific.

— John Updike

I think everyone's a little afraid of being part of a trend, because you get compared to each other. Writers tend to have a…

— Veronica Roth

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty…

— Tony Parsons

Many writers tend to write summing-up books at the end of their lives.

— V. S. Naipaul

Neophyte writers tend to believe that there is something magical about ideas and that if they can just get a hold of a good…

— Lynn Abbey

But a lot of writers - and I'm one of them - do tend to feel dissatisfied. It makes you a little hard to…

— Tobias Wolff

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each…

— William Golding

Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers.

— Thomas M. Disch

Somebody said that writers are like otters... Otters, if they do a trick and you give them a fish, the next time they'll do…

— Neil Gaiman

Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer to buffoons…

— Valeria Luiselli

Writers tend to work early in the morning, or late at night, when brains are naturally able to focus deeply on one thought. In…

— Scott Adams

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that…

— Roy Blount, Jr

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs