Calm Quote by Helen Garner

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

I think writers are very anxious.

— Helen Garner

Writers don't retire. I will always be a writer.

— Andy Rooney

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

Probably all writers are at some point briefly under the impression that they are in the forefront of disintegration and chaos, that they are…

— Martin Amis

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

— Van Wyck Brooks

Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

— Edna O'Brien

I will never stop writing. People often ask when I will retire, but I say it's none of their business. Writing defines who I…

— Barbara Taylor Bradford

I think most writers can't really think about their work without a kind of revulsion. And I think that's probably why we keep going…

— Paul Auster

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

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