Outsiders Quote by Isaac Marion

You have to be an outsider to write,

— Martin Cruz Smith

I was always an outsider, always standing outside, observing and trying to figure things out. Which is exactly what you need to do as…

— Monica Ali

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

I've always believed that a writer has got to remain an outsider.

— Colin Wilson

I often felt myself to be an outsider, which is great training for all writers.

— Karen Russell

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

I was an outsider, never quite part of what was going on, always looking in. It turned out to be great preparation for writing…

— Hallie Ephron

I think it's true that, as is often observed, the writer is always an outsider. A writer is someone who is telling stories about…

— Elif Batuman

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always…

— Jason Robert Brown

I believe a good writer can write a good book with any sort of character, in any sort of setting, but I prefer to…

— Charles de Lint

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

I've always been interested in writing from other people's perspectives and other gender perspectives.

— Bradford Cox