Feelings Quote by Chang-Rae Lee

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk…

— Anatole Broyard

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

Writing is an act of empathy. You are occupying and understanding a point of view that might be alien to your own--and work is…

— Benjamin Percy

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all…

— Joss Whedon

There are good writers and bad writers. It's hard to find writers who really speak to you, but the work is out there.

— Colson Whitehead

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

The great thing about writing is that you always put yourself in the shoes of the character. If you're doing it right, you can…

— Peter Gould

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

— Zadie Smith

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

— Iris Johansen

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

— Raymond Carver

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're…

— Norman Mailer