Drinking Quote by Liz Brixius

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

— Dorothy Parker

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers…

— Natalie Goldberg

Writers often have a 'drunk' that is different than anyone else's. That's why it's so insidious and so damning. First of all, because they…

— Debra Winger

...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe…

— David Nicholls

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Brendan Behan

Do you drink?" "Of course,I just said I was a writer.

— Stephen King

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

— Gore Vidal

I don't write romance novels.

— Nicholas Sparks

I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff…

— Martin McDonagh

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

— Maxim Gorky

“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

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

— Kingsley Amis