Time Quote by Anonymous

“I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.”

— Guy Debord

“To become better writers we must become the best thieves and liars in the business. We slink around the pages of everyone else’s work…

— Chris Stocking

In Chicago, if you tell someone you're a writer, they look at you suspiciously - as if to say "yeah, right." In New York,…

— Elaine Equi

In New York I was always so scared of saying that I wrote fiction. It just seemed like, 'Who am I to dare to…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I…

— Renata Adler

“I was writing of something I did not know about, and it seems to me that in a so-called writer this is criminal.”

— John Steinbeck

A writer who isn't writing is asking for trouble.

— Walter Kirn

All writers are egomaniacal, manic-depressive, drug-addicted alcoholics. You want to have that fix again.

— T.C. Boyle

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

“If I was an author I'd be worried, as I'm a story teller I'll just get drunk and make it up as i go…

— Glenn Scrimshaw

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers…

— Natalie Goldberg