Culture Quote by Rebecca Solnit

I didn't know anything about writers. It never occurred to me they were regular people and that I could grow up to become one,…

— Judy Blume

I think most serious writers, certainly in the modern period, use their own lives or the lives of people close to them or lives…

— Chaim Potok

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer…

— Anne Tyler

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

— Norman Mailer

I have a curious background for someone who turns out to be a writer.

— Jerry Spinelli

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

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 of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There's a strong streak of egomania coupled with extreme shyness. Writing's kind of like exhibitionism…

— David Foster Wallace

The time has come for writers to become inaccessible again. The reason is not some kind of 'mystique' that makes people curious (though it…

— Andrei Codrescu

Writers - human. I shudder to think how I must sometimes appear to others.

— Wole Soyinka

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find…

— Sara Sheridan