Away Quote by Dani Shapiro

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about…

— Elif Batuman

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

— Anne Rice

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel…

— Lisa Unger

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as…

— Monica Ali

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

Another thing all writers have in common is we're all observers. We pay attention to detail.

— Judy Blume

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson