Every Quote by Andrew Sean Greer

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about…

— Elif Batuman

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

You have to be an outsider to write,

— Martin Cruz Smith

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

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

— Isaac Marion

I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

— Karen Russell

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as…

— Monica Ali

“Writers are always outsiders and probably ought to be, since only outsiders see things clearly: the people who publish them, or make movies, or…

— Michael Korda

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

— Anne Rice

Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say.…

— John Updike