Believe Quote by Guillermo Cabrera Infante

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 think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

— Norman Mailer

I think writers write for their consciences, they write for their own true audiences, for their souls.

— Mo Yan

I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends…

— Sylvia Plath

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

— Edna O'Brien

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

“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong…

— George Orwell

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it…

— Andrei Codrescu