Drink Quote by Kingsley Amis

“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

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

— Gore Vidal

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that…

— Roald Dahl

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

— Liz Brixius

“She discovered what most writers insist is true nowadays, which is that they can only write for three hours a day at the most,…

— Eve Babitz

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Dorothy Parker

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Brendan Behan

“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every…

— Thor Benson

Wait a second while I take a swig off this bottle: it's my true and only Helicon, my Caballine fount, my sole Enthusiasm. Here,…

— Francois Rabelais

“If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.”

— Cormac McCarthy

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to…

— Ken Scott

“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