Close Quote by Meg Wolitzer

I love writers. All of my best friends are writers.

— Patricia Clarkson

I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And…

— Ali Smith

With the Internet, there are so many ways to connect with other writers who will be some of your best friends and best sources…

— Tomi Adeyemi

I do have a lot of time for people in my life, and friendship is a very important subject for me. I think I'm…

— Salman Rushdie

“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean you no…

— Randy Murray

I've always read, I've always admired writers and was lucky really to meet some extraordinary ones and become friends. Certain times you just like…

— David Salle

Ultimately I'm the writer for me, but also, anytime one of my friends gets stuck with a bit, they can call me, and I'm…

— Ron White

I adore the company of other writers because they are so often lively minds and, frequently, blazingly funny. And of course, we get each…

— Scott Turow

The only friends I have are the dead who have bequethed their writings to me--I have no others.

— Thomas Bernhard

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Believe it or not, friendships are difficult to write in fiction. They can easily come across as forced, particularly if they involve too much…

— Steven Erikson

For me as a person, friendships are incredibly important to me, but in writing, they can distract me.

— Aimee Bender