Admire Quote by Raymond Carver

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a…

— Charles Bukowski

I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.

— Helen Oyeyemi

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

— James T. Farrell

I'm blessed in my good friends, and some of them happen to be writers, though that's almost never what our friendships are about. And…

— Ali Smith

I much prefer to work with dead writers, and ones who were writing four hundred years ago.

— Thea Sharrock

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

— Salman Rushdie

I prefer dead writers because you don't run into them at parties.

— Fran Lebowitz

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

Some writers enjoy writing, I am told. Not me. I enjoy having written.

— Anonymous

If you are any kind of writer at all, you are in all of your writings.

— David M. Evans

I enjoy being influenced by other writers.

— Steve Toltz

I'm not a writer. I like being a reader.

— Brian Reynolds Myers