Bread Quote by Will Sheff

Sometimes the people around you really affect what you write.

— Susan Tedeschi

Those who say they want to be writers, and aren’t writing, don’t.

— Ernest Hemingway

I'm not fundamentally a writer. I know writers, and I have a tremendous amount of respect for them. It bothers me that no matter…

— Marc Maron

Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

— F Scott Fitzgerald

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

— Kurt Vonnegut

I like to think that I get better and better as a writer, but it seems pretty easy to me to slip on disguises…

— Daniel Handler

If you would like to write better than everybody else, you have to want to write better than everybody else. You must take an…

— William Zinsser

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

In general, writers who talk to their colleagues and neighbors constantly about their own writing seem to me pretty insufferable. I try not to…

— Ken Liu

Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.

— Lillian Hellman

That idea of not being exactly who you write as is so crucial. Even looking at those words as I type them, it feels…

— Lucas Mann