Different Quote by Sherman Alexie

My writing flows out of my doctorhood. They are not separate things. They are one. I think the foremost connection between being a doctor…

— Abraham Verghese

I think if I had done anything else I would like to have been a doctor. This is the sort of polar opposition to…

— Sylvia Plath

“As the Readers’s Digest once said: ‘Many persons call a doctor when all they want is an audience.”

— Dale Carnegie

I'm happier writing about doctors than I would have been being one.

— Sylvia Plath

But what physician has not had patients who don't make any sense at all? To tell the truth, they're our stock-in-trade. We talk and…

— Walker Percy

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people.

— Alex Chiu

Now of the difficulties bound up with the public in which we doctors work, I hesitate to speak in a mixed audience. Common sense…

— William Osler

Writing is very much an emotional process; it requires you to be very in touch with your feelings. That is the opposite of what…

— Tess Gerritsen

If I went to someone for therapy, I wouldn't be a writer...I would just be well adjusted.

— Garth Stein

In truth, I never consider the audience for whom I'm writing. I just write what I want to write.

— J. K. Rowling

I don't ever write with a particular audience in mind. I just write books that please me.

— William Landay

I have had an inordinate and painful concern for the audience in my writing career.

— Marsha Norman