Community Quote by Alan Lightman

Maybe half a dozen think they are a community, but, in general terms, I think English writers tend to face outwards, away from each…

— William Golding

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.

— Robert Munsch

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

— Anne Rice

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

— Renata Adler

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find…

— Sara Sheridan

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all…

— Joss Whedon

I think writers, by nature, are more observers instead of participators.

— Ian Hunter

Writers need each other.

— Sara Sheridan

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

— Aleksandar Hemon