Audiences Quote by Gore Vidal

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers…

— Natalie Goldberg

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

— Maxim Gorky

“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'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Dorothy Parker

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

— Liz Brixius

A drink precedes a story.

— Irish Proverb

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

— Kingsley Amis

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Brendan Behan

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that…

— Roald Dahl

There are those who write because they believe they have something so marvelous that it will make them famous and wealthy, a lauded commodity…

— Edward P. Jones

When a good writer is having fun, the audience is almost always having fun too.

— Stephen King

A good writer is not, per se, a good book critic. No more so than a good drunk is automatically a good bartender.

— Jim Bishop