Drinking Quote by Patti Smith

I drank, smoked and did drugs to get where I'm at.

— Doug Stanhope

I'm a writer, and what I do is write. I wasn't able to do anything else.

— Hugh Leonard

Now I don't drink, and I get up in the morning and I write in my diary, and I can write in my diary…

— David Sedaris

While I was an addict, I didn't write anything. I didn't have the attention span or the will.

— David Crosby

Out of frustration, you do drugs when you can't write. On occasion that might work, but usually what happens is that once you've had…

— Steve Jordan

I'm not a guy who did drugs or drank alcohol. I had a good work ethic and gave back to the community.

— Walt Frazier

I didn’t do anything. I don’t have an explanation, I don’t know why I wanted to write. I did some short stories at that…

— Don DeLillo

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

— Linn Ullmann

I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.

— Penelope Lively

I drank, I used drugs, I broke into houses, sniffed women's undergarments. I ate Benzedrex inhalers, jacked off for 18 hours at a pop,…

— James Ellroy

I wasn't doing much work when I was using and drinking. I have friends who did it (work), but I wasn't one of those…

— Rob Roberge

I went and did some things [rehab], and then of course my life didn't change that much [for a while], but I never missed…

— Kelsey Grammer