Christian Quote by Norm MacDonald

Ignorant people always suppose that popular writers are wonderfully well-paid - and must be making rapid fortunes - because they neither starve in garrets,…

— Eliza Leslie

Writers are really people who write books not because they are poor, but because they are dissatisfied with the books which they could buy…

— Walter Benjamin

I don't think writers are any smarter than other people. I think they may be more compelling in their stupidity, or in their confusion.

— David Foster Wallace

In the course of my research, I've read a lot of incredibly bad books - mostly by academics. I'm puzzled as to just why…

— Mark Kurlansky

If I'm a lousy writer, then an awful lot of people have lousy taste.

— Grace Metalious

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I think writers are excited by stupidity and bad behavior, generally.

— Martin Amis

“Academic writers are bad writers for three reasons. First, they want to sound smart. “If the water is dark,” goes a German aphorism, “the…

— Paul J. Silvia

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

Most of the writers I know work every day, in obscurity and close to poverty, trying to say one thing well and true. Day…

— Timothy Egan

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

— Gore Vidal