Fellows Quote by Gore Vidal

My feeling is that I think writers in general tend to be self-conscious and it takes a bit of a leap of faith or…

— Conor Oberst

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

— Iris Johansen

I never thought of myself as a writer.

— David E. Kelley

I'm not a writer who thinks about writing only for themselves; I do always have a reader in mind.

— Emma Healey

I'm not the most accomplished of writers out there, but I feel that I quite effective all the same.

— Don Gibson

I don't think of myself as a writer.

— James Patterson

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

I find that most books that I don't like are those in which the authors have indulged themselves. I can almost sense when they're…

— Robert Cormier

I've never had a writer, and I'm proud of that. Everything I've per­formed has been from my own head.

— Don Rickles

It's hard to resist the magical thinking that the work habits of great writers are the key to their greatness.

— Zoë Heller

I'm good at being by myself. I guess if you're a writer you get used to that.

— Chuck Klosterman