Drinking Quote by Ken Scott

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly.”

— Ken Scott

“And yes, the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, the Faulkners and the Capotes. Drank while writing. Drink next to the typewriter. But the longer I lived…

— Jeanne Darst

“I don’t think of myself as a writer. I’m troubled and stupid like everyone else. I grew up with the streets. I have dead…

— Mian Mian

“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they…

— Caroline Rody

“You're never as good a writer as you think you are, and you're never as bad. Just keep reading and writing, writing, writing.”

— Don Roff

“Good writers can't die. Their words live on forever.”

— Kensington Gore

“There's no point in writing my kind of stuff, when they're printing that kind of stuff. So I gave up and started drinking.”

— Charles Bukowski

“Writing is a struggle against the silence where words can have a powerful impact in just a split second and change your life forever…”

— Lisa Jones

“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I had to…

— Lee Siegel

“Slowly I discovered that writing was my way of coping with chaos and my cry of freedom, my homage to beauty. Because stories have…

— Vittorio Vandelli

“To write is to forget. Literature is the pleasantest way of ignoring life.”

— Fernando Pessoa

“It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life. Read more at”

— Amy Tan