Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

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

Most writers tend to get worse rather than better. I'm determined to be one that gets better.

— Edmund White

“I like men and women who don't fit well in the dominant culture, or, as Alvar de Campos calls them, strangers in this place…

— Rabih Alameddine

I think a lot of people in their lives feel like they don't fit in, even if it looks like they do. People feel…

— Shirley Manson

A lot of the characters I gravitate towards feel like outsiders.

— David Harbour

It's like people believe all you need to do is like the same bands in order to be soulmates. Or book. Oh my god...you…

— John Green

“i have a friend request from some stranger on facebook and i delete it without looking at the profile because that doesn't seem natural.…

— David Levithan

The work is where I tend to feel pressure - not so much in the reaction to it.

— Nic Pizzolatto

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

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

— John Updike

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

— V. S. Naipaul

“Anyone can be made to feel like an outsider. It’s up to the people who have the power to exclude. Often it’s on the…

— Melinda Gates

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

— Anne Rice

I'm seeing myself as an outsider a little bit - definitely when I started the band. I knew what band's name meant and nobody…

— Eddie Argos

I think that, for so much of our matriculation through American society, black people sort of feel like outsiders.

— Kenya Barris