I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

“I like to read as much as I can from every genre. That way, I can express my love for all writers.”

— Jen Selinsky

“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else’s work…

— Chris Stocking

If you want to teach women to be great writers, you should show them the best, and the best was often done by men.…

— A. S. Byatt

The thing all writers do best is find ways to avoid writing.

— Alan Dean Foster

When you do music, your friends are writers, actors, painters. It's all under the sameroof. So anything creative is interesting to me.

— Alison Mosshart

Why my interest in writers? Well, I'm one, and many of my friends are writers. I know what it's like to write. I'm interested…

— Eric Brown

“Making friends with other writers you respect is reason enough to go to graduate school. You”

— Ann Patchett

Some of my good friends who were writers disappeared. Others are still inside Syria and there are others who are refugees. I'm worried about…

— Osama Alomar

I have friends who are writers, but we don't tend to talk about literature very much. It's just not part of my process; I…

— Donald Miller

I have some friends, most of them are writers or editors, whose recommendations I trust blindly. There are some critics, too, whom I trust,…

— Karl Ove Knausgard

I don't have a normal job, so I really appreciate having friends who are writers and artists. It's fun to have a group of…

— Natalie Portman

I have friends who are writers who have had movies made of their books, and they are almost uniformly horrified about what's been done…

— Diana Gabaldon

“Do you know what the worst thing about literature is? said Don Pancracio. I knew, but I pretended I didn't. What? I said. That…

— Roberto Bolaño translated from the Spanish by Natasha Wimmer

In college, I had a lot of friends who were writers and wanted to be writers and I felt intimidated by it. I just…

— Rashida Jones

Writers are great lovers. They fall in love with other writers. That's how they learn to write. They take on a writer, read everything…

— Anonymous