Writers are the most terrible kleptomaniacs.

“The fictitious kleptomaniac's only crime was stealing imaginations”

— Dean Cavanagh

“I'm sorry," I said. "It's none of my business what you do. The trouble is, I'm a writer, and most writers are terrible nosey…

— Roald Dahl

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

“Amy turned to Nellie. "Can you create a diversion to draw the clerk outside?" The au pair was wary. "What kind of diversion?" "You…

— Gordon Korman

There are some writers who are done when they finish a draft because they've thought it through beforehand. Whereas I'll finish a first draft…

— Heidi Julavits

I'm always amazed by writers who tell me they plan everything at the beginning. I feel their writing days must be very bland.

— Rose Tremain

“You know what they say about writers: we can do it quietly, in many different positions, and all night long.”

— Christopher D. Votey

I've been an advocate against the view of the writer as a partitioned genius hanging in conceptual space, or up on a mountain, a…

— Jonathan Lethem

“I have from the first felt sure that the writer, when he sits down to commence his novel, should do so, not because he…

— Anthony Trollope

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

Writers are often the worst judges of what they have written.

— Stephen King

“Personal trainers and writers don't end up in history books.”

— Caspar Vega

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

— Anonymous

To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…

— Kingsley Amis

William Maxwell's my favorite North American writer, I think. And an Irish writer who used to write for 'The New Yorker' called Maeve Brennan,…

— Alice Munro