Amount Quote by Marc Maron

I don't read other writers because I'm writing all the time. It's too disturbing to read a writer with a good style when you're…

— Norman Mailer

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

I have a great respect for people that write. I don't know how they do it every day... or do novels that they have…

— John Stockton

I just try and do something good. But as a writer, you're slightly out of control.

— Peter Morgan

I am a very personal writer. I write direct to the reader. I don't hold back.

— Ruskin Bond

I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I…

— Geoff Dyer

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

Writers are always critical of themselves and I'm no exception. I always feel that maybe I could have done better.

— Iris Johansen

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut

So much of writing is fed by vanity and the feeling that what you are doing is the most important thing in the world…

— Pankaj Mishra

Writing is one of the few professions left where you take all the responsibility for what you do. It's really dangerous and ultimately destroys…

— Erica Jong