Ifs Quote by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Sometimes we make assumptions about influence when similarities between two writers' work are so strong, but they're still just assumptions. Some things are sort…

— Ron Currie Jr

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

I think with every writer there are two people there.

— Hugh Leonard

It's fascinating to imagine two successful writers in one house. But when you think about it, it isn't very unusual. In fact, so many…

— Heidi Julavits

Most writers are secretly worried that they're not really writers. That it's all been happenstance, something came together randomly, the letters came together, and…

— Nicholson Baker

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

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

— Anne Rice

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

It's that kind of thing that readers have. I have it as a reader myself: that expectation that the writer will be that person.…

— Irvine Welsh

People ... have no idea what a hard job it is for two writers to be friends. Sooner or later you have to talk…

— Anatole Broyard

I wonder sometimes if the motivation for writers ought to be contempt, not admiration.

— Orson Scott Card

I think maybe writers come from different planets. I mean, not in any sense as extravagant as Baryshnikov. But there are some writers who…

— Renata Adler