Generations Quote by Charles Stross

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

— Van Wyck Brooks

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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

A twenty-one-year-old writer is likely to be inhibited by a lack of usable experience. Childhood and adolescence were something I knew.

— Ian Mcewan

I think writers have to be proactive: they've got to use new technology and social media. Yes, it's hard to get noticed by traditional…

— Ian Rankin

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

“We live in a society where the individual is far more empowered, but that brings other challenges. Once the mob gets going, it is…

— Alison Flood

Writers are too self-centered to be lonely.

— Richard Condon

I am curious to see what books will emerge from all this writing online that's the result of those who grew up pouring their…

— Kate Zambreno

Novels need readers of a certain kind, people who are patient and enjoy immersing themselves in another perspective for uninterrupted stretches of time. Reading…

— Zia Haider Rahman

Being a writer now is about so much more than writing. There's publishing, touring, marketing, web presence.

— James Frey

Every writer since the beginning of time, just like other people, has been afflicted by what a friend of mine calls

— William Styron