Academic Quote by Umberto Eco

When I first started, there were writers that I looked up to that I felt very influenced by and very respectful toward their work…

— Woody Allen

“All of us are writers reading other people's writing, turning pages or clicking to the next screen with pleasure and admiration. All of us…

— Pamela Paul

I don't associate work with feelings of satisfaction. Rather, guilt, frustration, and resentment of people who write better than I do.

— Garrison Keillor

The big change that's happened for me in terms of my own life and how outsidership is reflected in my work is that I…

— Ira Sachs

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

I was writing for myself, not to be published. I was writing diaries, even letters, to myself or to anyone I was angry at.…

— Katie Piper

Writers matter in a society to the extent that we can help that society hear its unvoiced longing, encounter its erased and disregarded selves,…

— Adrienne Rich

I think I'm more sympathetic to writers, to the work and the struggle and the craft of it, than when I was in graduate…

— John Searles

I often feel like that with the way I portray myself I come off as looking much worse than any of the other characters.…

— Marie Calloway

I think most writers feel like they're on the outside looking in much of the time. All of us feel, to a certain extent,…

— Mark Haddon

Learn to spot and avoid "writer groupies." The writer's self-sufficiency and our love for our work tend to attract insecure people who never can…

— Florence King

“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