Drug addict Quote by Arthur Graham

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am…

— T.C. Boyle

“Writing is my drug of choice. Everyday, I write. It eases out the pressure in my head and it all lands on a blank…

— Sonnia Kemmer

“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a…

— Alistair Cross

“Writers, to my way of thinking, are no more free in their choices than most people. Our material chooses us; certain things engage us,…

— Tobias Wolff

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to…

— Ken Scott

“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

“Being a novelist is not the sort of thing we can shut off. It infests every bit of us until we lose the boundary…

— Thomm Quackenbush

“Writers aren't born, they're made--from practice, reading, and a lot of caffeine. And sometimes tutelage.”

— Alexander Chee

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

— T.C. Boyle

“Writers write because they're writers.”

— Brian A. McBride