Bottles Quote by Francois Rabelais

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

— Kingsley Amis

If a man can only write well when drunk, I'll tell him: get drunk. And if he tells me that his liver suffers with…

— Fernando Pessoa

“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

“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

“I began drinking because the thought that I was drinking gave me a kind of identity: each time I poured myself a brandy in…

— Penelope Mortimer

“All writing is a message in a bottle, cast into the sea in the forlorn hope of recognition and acceptance.”

— Stewart Stafford

“Hemingway, whenever he was stuck in his writing, would tell himself to write one true thing. A true sentence. Then, he would write another.…

— Kamal Ravikant

“Another drink, another sentence, and the writing continues on. . . .”

— Dennis R. Miller

“There are two simple things that can make writers shine: midnight coffee, and daytime wine.”

— Brandon Gene Petit

“Ambitions and dreams put you at a drinking table with unexpected companions. Cups were filled and refilled, making you drunk with the illusion of…

— Guy Gavriel Kay

“I write better with alcohol.”

— A.D. Starrling

“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