Behavior Quote by John Irving

All the great writers root their characters in true human behaviour.

— Ben Kingsley

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

Well, you know when people are no good at anything else they become writers.

— W. Somerset Maugham

You know, I think good writers write about what they know.

— Melody Gardot

Two sorts of writers possess genius: those who think, and those who cause others to think.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Safety, reputation, their lives, their friends, and their world. Writers typically try to avoid that because it's not expedient.

— Christopher Bollen

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

Sheer egoism... Writers share this characteristic with scientists, artists, politicians, lawyers, soldiers, successful businessmen - in short, with the whole top crust of humanity.

— George Orwell

That instinct for human character that is perhaps inherent in an imaginative writer.

— Graham Greene

Bad writers have influences. Good writers steal.

— S.M. Stirling

Good writers have two things in common: they prefer to be understood rather than admired; and they do not write for knowing and over-acute…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

There is only one trait that makes the writer. He is always watching.

— Morley Callaghan