End time Quote by Vikram Chandra

As a writer one is allowed to have conversations with oneself. What is considered sane in writers is made for the rest of the…

— Alan Ayckbourn

Writing is how I stay sane. It's completely necessary.

— Kathryn Harrison

Writing can make you feel a bit psychotic. You create a world, and you're sitting inside it all day long, talking to people who…

— Julian Barratt

As a writer, you have control: You can play around with your own thoughts and when you find those insufficient, draw upon others': their…

— Marty Nemko

You spend hours alone, only with your thoughts, and you torture yourself. It's a tendency of many writers to temper the self-destructive act of…

— Ben Gibbard

You know you lose a lot of social skills if you're a writer. You spend too long alone. And its forced me to address…

— Anthony Minghella

When one chooses to be a writer, psychologically there's a reason for that because you like the isolation and you like to be by…

— Woody Allen

You can tell when a writer moves out of a place of struggle and into a place of comfort, and it's always a bad…

— Eleanor Catton

My writing always came out of a very personal place, out of an attempt to stay sane.

— Alain de Botton

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut

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