Center of attention Quote by Gary Reilly

“It's part of a writer's job to be nosy about everything.”

— Sara Sheridan

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round

Writers who get written about become self-conscious. They develop a regrettable habit of looking at themselves through the eyes of other people. They are…

— Raymond Chandler

We're always observing, and we're cautious people. We really want attention, but at the same time, we're ashamed of wanting attention. All those bizarre…

— Min Jin Lee

It's very important for a writer to be unnoticed, as quiet and unnoticed as possible.

— Edith Pearlman

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

Writers, some of us, may tend to see things before other people do, things that are right there but aren't noticed in the way…

— Don DeLillo

“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.”

— Graeme Roberts

“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the…

— John Gardner

“You can be a writer who doesn't read everyday. But you're not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.”

— Don Roff

“People have an idea of what writers are: crazy; intellectual; moody; slightly more interesting than other people. Sometimes you just have to throw a…

— Alistair Cross

“Being a writer all boils down to this: It's you, in a chair, staring at a page. And you're either going to stay in…

— Alessandra Torre