Admire Quote by Gail Simone

I admire writers who can remain objective and distanced, but that doesn't seem to be in my toolbox somehow. I have to care, I…

— Gail Simone

We live in a time when writers do not always have barriers around them

— Georges Simenon

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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 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'm not interested in writers who are overcome with certainty, with single-mindedness, or with a sense of how consistent and morally upstanding they are.…

— Andrew O'Hagan

Writers are human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection…

— Amiri Baraka

Writers, like most human beings, are adaptable creatures. They can learn to accept subordination without growing fond of it. No writer can forever stand…

— Rod Serling

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