I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of…

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators. I am no where near as much of that as Bob Dylan. But…

— Ian Hunter

“Writers, by their very nature,  live a thousand lives and die a thousand times.  They experience loss each time a character dies.  They revel…

— Larry Ray Palmer

“Writers by nature are subversive, observant, and discerning, and their voice contains that.”

— Amy Tan

Even though I think writers can sometimes thrive from being misread. It can give them something to push off of.

— Matthew Specktor

I think a writer's job is to provoke questions. I like to think that if someone's read a book of mine, they've had -…

— Doris Lessing

I do not think writers ought ever to sit down and think they must write about some cause, or theme, or something. If they…

— Doris Lessing

I think writers have become hypnotised by the number of jokes on the page at the expense of character.

— Sherwood Schwartz

I think some writers should wait for something to say.

— Peter Orner

I don’t think writers compete, I think they’re all doing separate things in their own style.

— Elmore Leonard

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends…

— Sylvia Plath

“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it wasn't part…

— Delphine de Vigan

We aren't suggesting that mental instability or unhappiness makes one a better poet, or a poet at all; and contrary to the romantic notion…

— Dorianne Laux

I think that if writers don't speak about real life, it's because they don't know it.

— Michel Houellebecq

I don't think many writers like their best-known piece of work, particularly when it was written a long time ago.

— Lillian Hellman

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