There's a certain possessiveness of writers sometimes.
William Devane
I always individuate myself from other writers who say they would die if they couldn't write. For me, I'd die if I couldn't read.
Junot Diaz
The fancy that extraterrestrial life is by definition of a higher order than our own is one that soothes all children, and many writers.
Joan Didion
Writers are always selling somebody out.
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century.
E. L. Doctorow
Well, there are more writers of blogs right now than there are readers, so that's clearly a vanity phenomenon.
John Doerr
Writers should be applauded for their ability to make things up.
Emma Donoghue
Some writers can produce marvelous plots without planning it out, but I can't. In particular I need to know the structure of a novel: what's... →
The first writers are first and the rest, in the long run, nowhere but in anthologies.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
Most writers who leave their country physically have already left it mentally and emotionally.
Ariel Dorfman