Anxiety Quote by John Henry Newman

What writers do is they tell their own story constantly through other people's stories. They imagine other people, and those other people are carrying…

— Tobias Wolff

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

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

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

Writers are damned liars. Every single one of them.

— Jennifer Donnelly

Every other writer's process is sort of vaguely scary and appalling.

— Daryl Gregory

All writers, I think, are to one extent or another, damaged people. Writing is our way of repairing ourselves.

— Anonymous

I think writers are very anxious.

— Helen Garner

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

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

— Peter Carey

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all…

— Joss Whedon

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are…

— Dorothea Brande