Destructive Quote by Ben Gibbard

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and…

— Robert De Niro

Like most writers I spend a lot of my time sort of thinking, "It's such agony, I can't do it."

— Geoff Dyer

I've come to find that I am definitely not cut out for the isolated writer thing, locking myself away and writing and bleeding over…

— Anna Todd

I used to feel that I spent too much of my time in my pajamas doing nothing, and I'd think 'in the time that…

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address…

— Anthony Minghella

When you're a writer, sometimes you have to spend time poking at a part of yourself that normal, sane people leave alone.

— Vikram Chandra

Writing is solitary. You spend so much time alone and in your own mind, telling stories.

— Ruth Ozeki

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

You know, you lose a lot of social skills if you’re a writer. You spend too long alone. And it’s forced me to address…

— Anthony Minghella

“You once said that you would like to sit beside me while I write. Listen, in that case I could not write at all.…

— Franz Kafka

A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind…

— John McPhee