Anxious Quote by Robert McKee

Writers are articulate. Artists find it more difficult.

— Anthony Browne

Writers are painful friends, and they are seldom friendly with others. They are insecure in the presence of other writers. Composers of certain kinds…

— Paul Theroux

The artists who want to be writers, read the reviews; the artists who want to write, don't.

— William Faulkner

“Writing is an effort at truth telling, but each person’s version of truth and his or her means of conveying it are unique. Writers’…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Writers are what they write, also what they fail to write.

— Diana Trilling

“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of…

— John McPhee

There's no getting around it: Writing is hard, while working with young performers is nearly always a joy.

— Andrew Lloyd Webber

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

A lot of artists start out as failed poets, then move on to being failed short-story writers before they finally break through to the…

— Gary Reilly

“Writers are made--forged, really, in a kiln of their own madness and insecurities--over the course of many, many moons. The writer you are when…

— Chuck Wendig

What I didn't realize when I was in school and what I suspect a lot of young writers today don't get either is that…

— John D'Agata

“Yes, I know what you mean about writing and writers. We seem to have lost the target. Writers seem to write to be known…

— Charles Bukowski