Alcoholics Quote by Natalie Goldberg

Writers often have a 'drunk' that is different than anyone else's. That's why it's so insidious and so damning. First of all, because they…

— Debra Winger

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

— Maxim Gorky

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Dorothy Parker

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am…

— T.C. Boyle

“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every…

— Thor Benson

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

— Gore Vidal

Writing is a job. A drunk writer is about as useful as a drunk surgeon. You can spend the rest of the day swimming…

— Steve Gilliard

“Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn’t drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it’s what alkies are wired up to do.…

— Stephen King

There's an obvious romance to being the drinking writer. But if I'm drinking, I'm not writing.

— Liz Brixius

...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe…

— David Nicholls

“Sometimes I think they are writers who do not write. That "writers write" is meant to be self-evident. People like to say it. I…

— Renata Adler

I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from…

— John Shirley