Defending Quote by Jennifer Crusie

It's a funny thing about writing. You get so balled up in a story idea that you lose your perspective and forget that human…

— Gary Reilly

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should…

— Abi Morgan

A lot of the job that one has to do as a writer is to protect the thing that doesn't match the world.

— Kay Ryan

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

Only a very specific kind of writer keeps their reader in mind while working. Such writers don't want to irk their readers; they don't…

— Sarnath Banerjee

We're always observing, and we're cautious people. We really want attention, but at the same time, we're ashamed of wanting attention. All those bizarre…

— Min Jin Lee

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

The tension between standing apart, and being fully involved; that is what makes a writer.

— Nadine Gordimer

“If you’re not going to immerse yourself in your work as a writer then don’t write. But beware, if you’re a writer who does…

— Jason E. Hodges

Writing is taking a risk, and it is actually fighting invisible and invincible enemies. They are over-confidence, stupidity, expectation and narcissism.

— Andrea Hirata