Audience Quote by Laura Lippman

There are tons of really good writers out there, but for one reason or another, they just have not had the support that allowed…

— Janet Evanovich

Writers are egotists. All artists are. They can’t be altruists and get their work done. And writers love to whine about the Solitude of…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

You have to really have a taste for being alone to be a writer.

— Paul Auster

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

— Anne Rice

I never really like it when other writers talk about coming in behind people and rewriting.

— Tony Gilroy

On the other hand, I mean, that is what writers have always been supposed to do, was to rely on their own devices and…

— Donna Tartt

My sensibility steers me toward writers who are out on their own.

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind.

— Edmund Burke

Very few people can write in a crowd. This is a very solitary occupation. I have known people more talented than me who never…

— Tom Robbins

Everywhere I go, I find that writers are treated as if they are invisible, as if they don't matter.

— Harlan Ellison

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

TV writing is for people who hate being alone more than they hate writing.

— Matthew Weiner