Best Quote by John Irving

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

Writers, as they gain success, feel like outsiders because writers don't come together in real groups.

— Anne Rice

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Every writer is an outsider.

— Andrew Sean Greer

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

— Colin Wilson

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

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything.…

— Dani Shapiro

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because…

— William Trevor

Being an outsider makes you a really good writer.

— Mitski

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer