Persistence Quote by Chris Kraus

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

To be a serious writer requires discipline that is iron fisted. It's sitting down and doing it whether you think you have it in…

— Anonymous

I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I…

— Geoff Dyer

One of the problems we have as writers is we don't take ourselves seriously while writing; being serious is setting aside a time and…

— Maya Angelou

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

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

— Iris Johansen

For writers, so much is done in isolation. It can be easy to feel detached, or to get a little lost along the way.

— Brad Listi

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach

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

I think to the degree writers are serious, there is a greater tendency for them to write to themselves, because they're trying to compose…

— Marilynne Robinson