Assuming Quote by Suzanne Vega

A lot of my writing is not terribly civilized.

— Suzanne Vega

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

But writers experience the world and themselves in a unique way. We look for meaning. We see it even when we are not paying…

— Larry Brooks

I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.

— Ted Dekker

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 sometimes feel that the world is a very uncivilised place where it is meant to be at its most civilised. Where it's meant…

— Rachel Cusk

I'm not saying that I don't experience people in life as evil, but writing is not a place of alienation; writing is the place…

— Etgar Keret

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter…

— Marc Maron

Writers tend to think they occupy a much more relevant place in society than we actually do. But we really are closer to buffoons…

— Valeria Luiselli

I can see a version of my life where it all becomes meaningless. On a good day, writing seems noble. Other times, it's narcissistic…

— Hari Kunzru

As a writer, you owe it to yourself not to get stuck in a rut of looking at the world in a certain way.

— Hilary Mantel

What I've learned being a writer is to just basically not buckle - not be belligerent, not be angry, not throw fits. Though there…

— Shane Black