Live Quote by W. G. Sebald

Writers, at least writers of fiction, are always full of anxiety and worry.

— Peter Carey

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

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 can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

A certain slightly cruel disregard for the feelings of living people is simply part of the package. I think a writer, if he's any…

— Michael Cunningham

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

Life can be unsettling. Writers have always gravitated to conflict, unhappiness and disturbing themes. We as readers would get bored pretty quickly if stories…

— Clarence Major

When writers are self-conscious about themselves as writers they often keep a great distance from their characters, sounding as if they were writing encyclopedia…

— Jerome Stern

..few writers like other writers' works. The only time they like them is when they are dead or if they have been for a…

— Charles Bukowski

I can't be alone among fiction writers in regarding the world, so much weirder than anything we could make up, as beating us at…

— Lionel Shriver

“An author has to fit into the skin of her characters, to imagine being trapped by unfortunate and sometimes violent circumstances she herself has…

— Loretta H. Marion

There is little pride in writers. They know they are human and shall some day die and be forgotten. Knowing all this a writer…

— William Saroyan