Groups Quote by Anne Rice

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

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

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— John Banville

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 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

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything.…

— Dani Shapiro

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism…

— David Foster Wallace

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun