Doe Quote by Nelson W. Aldrich

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

“Writers have come to master nearly every trade. They are inventors and entrepreneurs of character, plot, and dialogue. They are the eager scientists that…

— Garrett Dennert

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers…

— Natalie Goldberg

Being a writer requires an intoxication with language.

— Jim Harrison

If you are to become a writer you'll have to stop fooling with words.

— Sherwood Anderson

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

— Gore Vidal

Young writers should be encouraged to write, and discouraged from thinking they are writers.

— Wallace Stegner

Writing is for men who can think and feel, not mindless sensation seekers out of nightclubs and bars. But these are bad times. We…

— Naguib Mahfouz

A lot of young writers are very precious about their words. Don't be - you've got to be ready to burn stuff. You're not…

— Josh Lieb

There are so many ways of posturing that people associate with being a writer. They imagine you wearing a beret and drinking only red…

— Eleanor Catton

“Writers are either bullfighters, who risk all for art... or bullshitters, who make fake passes in an empty ring. To be a writer, one…

— Anonymous

A writer doesn't write for his readers, does he? Yet he has to take elementary precautions all the same, to make them comfortable.

— Graham Greene