Art Quote by Rachel Kushner

Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting that side…

— Craig Bierko

Increasingly, there are those of us who write from outside the center, and those are the writers that I'm most interested in because they…

— Aminatta Forna

I went through a phase where I wanted to be a writer... but it's not social enough.

— Sophie Kennedy Clark

I think that all writers feel alienated. ... I know that I do. ... I still feel, as I think most creative people do, absolutely isolated.

— John le Carre

I do enjoy having researchers and writers around me because I am getting a lot of different influences now from the opposite sex, different…

— Jim Jefferies

I've been in the art world for many years. But the sad fact is that most writers are visually prepubescent. Generally speaking, the literary…

— Richard Grossman

I cannot say that I write with any social objective. One writes because one loves writing, really.

— Tom Stoppard

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

It seems to me that many writers, by virtue of environments of culture, art and education, slip into writing because of their environments.

— Robert E. Howard

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

— Laurell K. Hamilton

When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work…

— Woody Allen