About Quote by Jonathan Ames

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people don't understand what's involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that don't either don't have…

— Peter McWilliams

Everyone thinks they can be a writer. Most people dont understand whats involved. The real writers persevere. The ones that dont either dont have…

— Peter McWilliams

“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly.…

— Chancery Stone

Some people think that writers are innately solitary and that there's a kind of romance to that solitariness. I tend to think that what…

— Richard Ford

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

There are so many different types of writers. It's just sheer coincidence that they're all called writers.

— Renata Adler

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

I wonder if these editors, why they're not writers sometimes, because they know so much about writing.

— Hampton Fancher

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

A lot of writers, because they don't understand actors, feel like, in order to be better at their performance, they have to change the…

— Giovanni Ribisi

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald