Derelict Quote by Mike Tyson

Writers have been in terrible situations and have yet managed to produce extraordinary work.

— Salman Rushdie

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

Writing is a dreadful labor, yet not so dreadful as Idleness.

— Thomas Carlyle

There are no dull subjects. There are only dull writers.

— H. L. Mencken

A writer, by definition, is pathetic.

— Ethan Coen

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

Good writers are of necessity rare.

— George Henry Lewes

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

— Diana Trilling

“A writer who does not write is a deplorable thing, like an emaciated dog lost from home.”

— Wesley D. Gray

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker