Better Quote by Alan Rickman

I know when I go and see a writer, the first thing I think to myself is, 'Are they the character in the book?'…

— Irvine Welsh

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan

“You're lucky to have within your grasp something that everyone envies. You can't act as though that didn't exist, as though it wasn't part…

— Delphine de Vigan

“All writers pen sad stories to garner sympathy.”

— Aporva Kala

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

— Iris Johansen

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

“you can’t empathize, if you can’t or aren’t willing to put yourself into someone else’s place with all the compassion and insight you can…

— Joe Mynhardt

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

— Rob Urbinati

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

— Anonymous