Desperate Quote by Charles Bukowski

he asked, "what makes a man a writer?" "well," I said, "it's simple, it's either you get it down on paper or you jump…

— Charles Bukowski

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

And there are people who want to be writers because they love to write. And they care.

— Russell Banks

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I feel like the writers that I'm drawn to, the writers that I really cling to, are the writers who seem to be writing…

— Sam Shepard

Writers are just like other people, except slightly more obsessed.

— John Banville

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

Don't live with writers. Writers are bastards.

— Warren Ellis

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a…

— James A. Michener

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett