Friendship Quote by William Styron

“A writer is a dangerous friend. Everything you say, all of your life and experience, is fodder for our writing. We mean you no…

— Randy Murray

For everyone I know who is a writer, there was some awkward time in their lives when they had to learn to call themselves…

— James Bernard Frost

I have friends who write all the time, and I envy them terribly.

— Michael McDonald

Any writer worth the name is always getting into one thing or getting out of another thing.

— Fannie Hurst

A writer is not so much someone who has something to say as he is someone who has found a process that will bring…

— William Stafford

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

“The very qualities that make one a writer in the first place contribute to the block: hypersensitivity, stubbornness, insatiability, and so on. Given the…

— John Gardner

What creates a writer is huge, psychological dysfunction.

— Kathy Lette

I think that most of my writer friends are really compulsive. I think that's great. It's wonderful for them. It's just not my bag.…

— Junot Diaz

“Writers that don't write, end up talking to themselves...”

— Carina Round

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

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