Attributes Quote by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

The world needs writers. We will always be necessary. There are few professions that can claim that distinction.

— Rod McKuen

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

Writers - all writers, even screenwriters - like to make their mark. I don't think many screenwriters can write. They pass as writers.

— Elmore Leonard

A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only real requirement is the ability…

— Stephen King

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

— Diana Trilling

There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

— Mabel Seeley

Well, in features, and in writing especially, it's often the style of the writer comes in.

— Kurt Loder

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

We cannot be all the writers all the time. We can only be who we are. Which leads me to my second point: writers…

— Zadie Smith

There are two kinds of writers, those who are and those who aren't. With the first, content and form belong together like soul and…

— Karl Kraus

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

— Renata Adler

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

— Christopher Bollen