Always Quote by Min Jin Lee

There are so many different things out there trying to hook our attention, we writers have to be very selective and make certain that…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it…

— Andrei Codrescu

Writers are socially observant. We find people endlessly fascinating, and real life is mysterious. Sometimes it's hard to stop staring at the strut and…

— Julianna Baggott

I think that most of us are aware that as writers we are seeking absences, we're seeking silences, we're seeking spaces that people haven't…

— Junot Diaz

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by…

— Woody Allen

Being a writer means I sit in a dark (and pretty dank) room off my garage for many hours a day, and in my…

— Lauren Groff

One of the gifts of being a writer is that it gives you an excuse to do things, to go places and explore. Another…

— Anne Lamott

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer

Writers are first and foremost observers. We lose ourselves in the watching and then the telling of the world we find. Often we feel…

— Lisa Unger

“Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.”

— Gary Reilly

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent,…

— Mark Haddon

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

— William Maxwell