Community Quote by Sylvia Plath

“Obviously as a writer you have to reflect on why your work is provoking such hostility, because all you want to do is write…

— James Kelman

I don't really think it comes as a shock to every writer if somebody in their family is mad at them. Yes, it's very…

— Anne Roiphe

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love…

— Louise Erdrich

“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress by force…

— Susan Sontag

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because…

— William Trevor

“I would say, for the moment, that community, at least community larger than the immediate family, consists very largely of imaginative love for people…

— Marilynne Robinson

It seems natural to me that as a writer, you should have some kind of, you know, there should be some kind of projection…

— Amiri Baraka

It used to bother me being portrayed as this bitchy person, but now I feel that the public understands me better than some writer.…

— Jennifer Lopez

Most writers begin with accounts of their first home, their family, and the town, often from quite a hostile point of view-love/hate, let's say.…

— John Updike

Nothing frustrates me more than someone who reads something of mine or anyone else's and says, angrily, 'I don't buy it.' Why are they…

— Malcolm Gladwell

To be truthful, some writers stop you dead in your tracks by making you see your own work in the most unflattering light. Each…

— Francine Prose

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