Numbers Quote by Charles Bukowski

“I disliked them all immediately, sitting around acting clever and superior. They nullified each other. The worst thing for a writer is to know…

— Charles Bukowski

Writing is the worst part of being a writer.

— James Atlas

Part of being a writer is knowing when what you write is really bad.

— Reif Larsen

“The worst thing you can do as a writer is waste people's time.”

— John Connolly

As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is…

— Mary McCarthy

You do an awful lot of bad writing in order to do any good writing. Incredibly bad. I think it would be very interesting…

— William S. Burroughs

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad…

— Eleanor Catton

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

So writing is not just writing. It is also having a relationship with other writers. And don't be jealous, especially secretly. That's the worst…

— Natalie Goldberg

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

— Katherine Paterson

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

“Read widely and with discrimination. Bad writing is contagious." [ Ten rules for writing fiction , The Guardian, 20 February 2010 (with Diana Athill,…

— P. D. James