Writers are nerds.

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

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To refer even in passing to unpublished or struggling authors and their problems is to put oneself at some risk, so I will say…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

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

— Anonymous

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

— Caspar Vega

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

— Stephen King

“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

I worked in a post-production facility for television, but in the machine room, so I was one of the nerds, essentially - making sure…

— Shura

I think people have this stereotypical idea in their head of what a nerd is. People have said to me before, "You're not a…

— Chris Hardwick

In our society we have hard nerds and soft nerds. The hard nerds are the ones who used to have the slide rules at…

— Alan Kay

Nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff. Nerds are allowed to love stuff, like jump-up-and-down-in-your-chair-can't-control-yourself love it. when people call…

— John Green

“We're all nerds because we're all too good at something”

— Care

“It is easy to criticize the antisocial, but hard to get close to know what keeps them at bay.”

— Michael Bassey Johnson

I think there's a misconception that chess players are all total nerds. Well, I guess they are.

— Daniel Naroditsky

“Halliday’s favorites, like WarGames, Ghostbusters, Real Genius, Better Off Dead, or Revenge of the Nerds”

— Ernest Cline

I try to stay away from calling people nerds or whatever, because I've got my own fetishes and interests.

— Kyle Kinane