„Writers are such phonies: they sometimes have wise insights but they don’t live by them at all. That’s what writers are like… you think they know something, but usually they are just messes.“

— Anne Sexton

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„Writers only think they are interested in politics, they are not really, it gives them a chance to talk and writers like to talk but really no real writer is really interested in politics.“
— Gertrude Stein
„Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.“
— Mick Jagger
„I don't know what you think you're trying to do, but the krauts ought to pin a medal on you for helping them mess up discipline for us.“
— George S. Patton
„I think writers are the most narcissistic people. Well, I musn't say this, I like many of them, a great many of my friends are writers.“
— Sylvia Plath
„Bob Dylan: The media is all-pervasive. What can a writer think of to write that you don't see every day in a newspaper or on television?Interviewer: …Do you think that TV and the media have killed poetry and literature?Bob Dylan: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely. … What's a writer to do if every idea is exposed in the media before he can get to it or let it evolve? What's a writer gonna write about? … We're living in a science-fiction world. We're living in a world that Disney has conquered. Disney's science fiction. Theme parks, trendy streets, it's all science fiction. So I would say, if a writer has got something to say, he'll have to do it in that–Interviewer: Outside of the real world?Bob Dylan: There is a real world. Science fiction has become the real world. Whether we realize it or not, it has.“
— Bob Dylan
„Don't you think it would be wonderful to get rid of everything and everybody and just go someplace where you don't know a soul? Sometimes I feel like doing that. I really really want to do it sometimes.“
— Haruki Murakami
„Mediocrity is a constant, as one Russian writer put it. Russians have a way with aphorisms. They probably spend all winter thinking them up.“
— Haruki Murakami