Exposed Quote by Anne Lamott

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is…

— Mary McCarthy

Nothing bad can happen to a writer. Everything is material.

— Philip Roth

Bad things don't happen to writers; it's all material.

— Garrison Keillor

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

“Writers live with fear. Some writers cannot deal with the fear, and so they quit or refuse to publish. In order to write, you…

— Patrick Mcmanus

The worst part of writing fiction is the fear of wasting your life behind a keyboard. The idea that, dying, you'll realize you only…

— Chuck Palahniuk

Nothing can destroy the good writer. The only thing that can alter the good writer is death. Good ones don't have time to bother…

— William Faulkner

There is probably no hell for authors in the next world - they suffer so much from critics and publishers in this.

— Anonymous

a writer doesn't only need the time when he's actually writing - he or she has got to have time to think and time…

— Nadine Gordimer

The world is changing from day to day; it is high time for our writers to take off their masks, look frankly, keenly, and…

— Lu Xun

It's true that some of us become better writers by living long enough. But this is also how we become worse writers. The trick…

— Don DeLillo

It is said that an Author won't become a great writer until they've suffered. I guess I'm in the throws of a Best Seller…

— Christel Tait