Away from each other Quote by William Golding

Writers are a loosely knit community - community is an overstated word. Writers don't see each other very much.

— Alan Lightman

I think that writers are, at best, outsiders to the society they inhabit. They have a kind of detachment, or try to have.

— John Irving

I think writers are not only writers, they are also citizens.

— Chinua Achebe

Writers' communities are very helpful to writers because it gives them a way to try out their stuff short of publication.

— Robert Munsch

Whatever solidarity I have established with other writers individually, it is usually organized around books. We connected as readers, as it were, not writers.

— Aleksandar Hemon

Writers are a product of where we come from but by looking at alternatives to the culture in which we live, we can find…

— Sara Sheridan

At risk of sounding foully pompous I think that writers' groups are probably very useful at the beginning of a writing career.

— Bernard Cornwell

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because…

— William Trevor

One thing that writers have in common is that they are readers first. They have read lots and lots of stuff, because they're just…

— Terry Pratchett

I'm the most communal person that exists and a very solitary person. So I think writing is a form of getting to the community…

— Ariel Dorfman

The English may not always be the best writers in the world, but they are incomparably the best dull writers.

— Raymond Chandler

I envy certain writers, because there are writers who do go into a kind of different zone, where the writing isn't controlled anymore.

— Errol Morris