Arcane Quote by William Safire

Never look for the story in the 'lede.' Reporters are required to put what's happened up top, but the practiced pundit places a nugget…

— William Safire

“People approach writers, assuming we pull a perfect text out of our nose each time (well spelled). Spelling is the least of it.”

— Sara Levine

Writers are outsiders. Even when we seem like insiders, we're outsiders. We have to be. Our noses pressed to the glass, we notice everything.…

— Dani Shapiro

“Writers, even unpublished writers, have a tendency not to notice what’s going on around them when they are the center of attention.”

— Gary Reilly

High-profile columnists should remember they are in a privileged position. Writing isn't a dreadfully specific skill - it's taught to millions via our schooling…

— Rob Manuel

People who write obscurely are either unskilled in writing or up to mischief.

— Marshall McLuhan

I know people my age (early 40s) who insist upon only writing. You know what we call them? Ex-journalists.

— Jeff Pearlman

Brainless writers gossip nonsense to others heads as dense as they is.

— George Harrison

Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.

— John Updike

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

— Alexis De Veaux

Writers tend to feel like outsiders.

— Jesse Armstrong

Writers are entirely egocentric. To them, few things in their lives have meaning or importance unless they give promise of serving some creative purpose.

— Doris Grumbach