Creative people Quote by Stephen King

“Writers choose to drink because of their inability to cope with the daily hassles of being part of a society. Why shouldn’t they? Every…

— Thor Benson

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

“And yes, the Hemingways, the Fitzgeralds, the Faulkners and the Capotes. Drank while writing. Drink next to the typewriter. But the longer I lived…

— Jeanne Darst

“The idea that creative endeavor and mind-altering substances are entwined is one of the great pop-intellectual myths of our time. The four twentieth-century writers…

— Stephen King

...maybe I've just read too many novels. In novels, alcoholics are always attractive and fuuny and charming and complex, like Sebastian Flyte or ABe…

— David Nicholls

“I drink to make people more interesting," Ernest Hemingway.”

— Ernest Hemingway

I'd say Ernest Hemingway would be a blast to get drunk with.

— William Beckett

“Getting sober is a radically creative act.”

— Meredith Bell

“There were two types of drinkers: those who drank to enhance their personalities, and those who sought to rid themselves of something.”

— Haruki Murakami

“There's not alcoholic in the world who wants to be told what to do. Alcoholics are sometimes described as egomaniacs with inferiority complexes. Or,…

— Anthony Kiedis

The writer walks out of his workroom in a daze. He wants a drink. He needs it. It happens to be a fact that…

— Roald Dahl

“It's impossible to be a good writer if you haven't lived badly. A past life of drinking heavily, fighting and whoring all help to…

— Ken Scott