Drinking problem Quote by Eve Babitz

“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most,…

— Eve Babitz

“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every…

— Thor Benson

“I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.”

— Guy Debord

“If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to…

— Ken Scott

“And yes, the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, the Faulkners and the Capotes. Drank while writing. Drink next to the typewriter. But the longer I lived…

— Jeanne Darst

“At the beginning, there had been talk of using some of her money to start a home for alcoholics. In a sense they had…

— Edward St. Aubyn

“There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.”

— Charles Bukowski

“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they…

— Caroline Rody

“She slapped down a mug of something that was, he suspected, technically alcohol, but only because it had a good lawyer.”

— Curtis Craddock

“In the first decade of the 20th century, drinking rates actually increased. The advertising of alcohol in the early 20th century was sophisticated and…

— Charles River Editors

“I am an alcoholic. I’m the first to admit that. I can’t drink at all. One drink is too many and a thousand’s not…

— Donna Tartt