Feels Quote by Doris Lessing

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

— Augusten Burroughs

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 tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

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

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it…

— Andrei Codrescu

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

— Chuck Palahniuk

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent,…

— Mark Haddon