Block Quote by Dorothea Benton Frank

A writer has to have some kind of compulsive drive to do his work. If you don't have it, you'd better find another kind…

— John McPhee

All writers are obviously neurotic... For various reasons, writers retreat into an imaginary world because they find ordinary life rather difficult or boring or…

— Christopher Koch

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

A writer never finds the time to write. A writer makes it. If you don't have the drive, the discipline, and the desire, then…

— Nora Roberts

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

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine-addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing, and…

— Robert De Niro

“Writing is a mixed blessing. We, who are addicted, berate ourselves and feel guilty when we don't write and at the same time put…

— Marcia Preston

I don't understand why, in my work, writing is always so dangerous. It's very destructive. People who write books are destroyers.

— A. S. Byatt

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

Writers are troubled about finding time to write and writer's block and publicizing books that aren't books yet. They agonize over how to write…

— Deb Caletti

Writers are a fascinating breed, because there are so many kinds of them, they are made by so many circumstances, conditions, and mysteries, and…

— William Saroyan