Drinking Quote by 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

I'm not a writer with a drinking problem, I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Dorothy Parker

“Hemingway and Fitzgerald didn’t drink because they were creative, alienated, or morally weak. They drank because it’s what alkies are wired up to do.…

— Stephen King

Many contemporary authors drink more than they write.

— Maxim Gorky

Alcohol had a lot to do with it, too, and mental instability. All writers are narcissistic, manic-depressive drug addicts and alcoholics, and I am…

— T.C. Boyle

“From that time forward it has been hard for me not to think of literature as created primarily to give writers the drinks they…

— Caroline Rody

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

I think that we definitely deal with that issue and don't ignore it, the issue of drink, but that's not where it ends. I…

— Debra Winger

I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

— Brendan Behan

Some writers take to drink, others take to audiences.

— Gore Vidal

“If there is an occupational hazard to writing, it's drinking.”

— Cormac McCarthy