Chaos Quote by Martin Amis

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

Why do the lives of writers seem so... train-wrecky?

— Chuck Palahniuk

How many writers are there... who, breaking up their subject into details, destroy its life, and defraud us of the whole by their anxiety…

— John Henry Newman

When the writers themselves are a bit out of control, and their lives are collapsing around them, they seem to rejoice in misery and…

— John Rhys-Davies

Writers are completely out of touch with reality. Writers are a crazy person. We create conflict - for a living. We do this all…

— Joss Whedon

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

— Anne Rice

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

— John Updike

I think many writers write because it's a convenient way to explain themselves to themselves. We take the chaos and the turmoil and the…

— Armistead Maupin

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are…

— Dorothea Brande

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

Certainly I'm still mining my experiences as a journalist. I think it's no coincidence that all three of my novels basically are about how…

— Geraldine Brooks