Absolutely Quote by Sam Shepard

writers are desperate people and when they stop being desperate they stop being writers.

— Charles Bukowski

You know how sometimes you meet writers that are so full of themselves? They feel really proud that they wrote something . But what…

— Sandra Cisneros

..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

You're...writing for other writers to an extent-the dead writers whose work you admire, as well as the living writers you like to read.

— Raymond Carver

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

“Plenty of times I've seen writers, famous novelists and essayists, even poets, with names you'd recognize and whose work I admire, drift through these…

— Richard Ford

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

I'm way more in my head acting than I am when I'm writing. So there's a weird love/hate on both ends. But writing, as…

— Anders Holm

I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for…

— Harlan Coben

I feel that there are two kinds of writers. I feel that there are writers who are storytellers and then there are those just…

— Steve Toltz

“There is a deeper, more profound reason for this craving for acceptance and glory. Put simply, it's because all writers are fat and/or ugly.…

— Chancery Stone

I feel like I am walking in some amazing footsteps of writers who have come before me, like S.E. Hinton, Walter Dean Myers, Christopher…

— Jacqueline Woodson