Caught up Quote by Elif Batuman

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— Colin Wilson

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to…

— Charles de Lint

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 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

A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined…

— Walter Kirn

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

A writer is someone for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

A writer is somebody for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

— Thomas Mann

I've always been interested in writing from the perspective of an outsider.

— Isaac Marion

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

— Ray Bradbury