Committed Quote by Marge Piercy

I detest professional anythings but particularly professional writers. Most of them today are just garbage collectors.

— Cleveland Amory

The past is full of examples of renegade writers who were overlooked in their time not only because their work didn't fit neatly into…

— Joanna Scott

I avoided writers very carefully because they can perpetuate trouble as no one else can.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

I added 'writers' to my list of people not to trust. They make everything up.

— David Mitchell

Writers are diffident creatures -- they need encouragement.

— Agatha Christie

Writing is a demanding profession and a selfish one. And because it is selfish and demanding, because it is compulsive and exacting, I didn't…

— Rod Serling

Whatever is committed from a bad example, is displeasing even to its author.

— Juvenal

I've come to find that I am definitely not cut out for the isolated writer thing, locking myself away and writing and bleeding over…

— Anna Todd

If you're a so-called minority writer, the temptation is to write for the majority... I refuse to do that.

— Nguyen Viet Thang

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

— Michael Morpurgo

I would never write about someone that forced me to write at a lower register than what I can write,

— Martin Amis