Habit Quote by Stephen Sondheim

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

— Errol Morris

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

I suspect that every writer is secretly writing for someone.

— Brewster Ghiselin

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

Few people realize how badly they write. Nobody has shown them how much excess or murkiness has crept into their style.

— William Zinsser

Writers don't have lifestyles. They just sit in little rooms and write.

— Norman Mailer

Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don't live by them at all. That's what writers are like...you think they…

— Anne Sexton

You know, I haven't written as much as most other writers. Certainly maybe those who keep a more regular schedule accomplish more.

— Wallace Shawn

I think we're so often, as writers, afraid of writing something that is less than perfect, and that fear paralyzes us. I'm a big…

— Raphael Bob-Waksberg