Anything Quote by Ring Lardner

No one, ever, wrote anything as well even after one drink as he would have done without it.

— Ring Lardner

I have written much less than most people who write; I have drunk much more than most people who drink.

— Guy Debord

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

— Maxim Gorky

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Dorothy Parker

I never, ever drink while writing. Never have from the start, and I'm happy that I never have to. A lot of my stuff…

— Martin McDonagh

I often wonder if all the writers who are alcoholics drink a lot because they aren't writing. It is not because they are writers…

— Natalie Goldberg

No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.

— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Brendan Behan

“I have written less than most writers. But I have drunk far more than most drinkers.”

— Guy Debord

Writers often have a 'drunk' that is different than anyone else's. That's why it's so insidious and so damning. First of all, because they…

— Debra Winger

Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.

— Kingsley Amis

My training was never to drink after dinner nor before I wrote nor while I was writing.

— Ernest Hemingway