Certain Quote by Paul Theroux

It's not a bad thing for a writer not to feel at home. Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the…

— Neil Gaiman

I very much like people. I don't much like writers who don't.

— Jim Shepard

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our…

— Erica Jong

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

So many writers don't like to write... I like to write, and sometimes I'm afraid I like it too much, because when I get…

— Harper Lee

It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.

— W. G. Sebald

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

Writers, particularly poets, always feel exiled in some way - people who don't exactly feel at home, so they try to find a home…

— Natasha Trethewey

“but to write it well and write the time well, you must learn to love your subjects to their core, even if you hate…

— Nick Miller

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and…

— Roddy Doyle

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say.…

— John Updike