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Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.

— Lev Grossman

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

It's not a problem to be surrounded by other writers if that's the craft that you're doing. I suppose if you get obsessed with the notion of being a writer more than the writing itself, that would be bad. But I live near really smart, thoughtful people who take writing very seriously, and I can meet them for breakfast and talk books.

— Phil Klay

The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

— Katherine Paterson

Writers are not just people who sit down and write. They hazard themselves. Every time you compose a book your composition of yourself is at stake.

— E. L. Doctorow

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley

To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.

— Garry Disher

It's never really easy to be successful as a writer when you're trying to write literary fiction. You've already limited your readership limited by that choice.

— Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Writers are essential. Readers are essential. Publishers are not.

— J. A. Konrath

✗Opposing Perspectives

I've always felt strongly that a writer shouldn't be engaged with other writers, or with people who make books, or even with people who read them. I think the farther away you get from the literary traffic, the closer you are to sources. I mean, a writer doesn't really live; he observes.

— Nelson Algren

Being a writer is not the point. Writing is.

— Mohsin Hamid

Writing is, by its nature, interior work. So being forced to be around people is a great gift for a novelist. You get to be reminded, daily, of how people think, how they speak, how they live; the things they worry about, the things they hope for, the things they fear.

— Hanya Yanagihara