I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

Quote by Edna O'Brien

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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a...

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a...

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of...

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of...

The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can...

The original writer is not he who does not imitate others, but he who can...

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

Writers aren't exactly people...they're a whole lot of people trying to be one person.

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you...

Agents are like tires on a car; in order to get anywhere at all, you...

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate...

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate...

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its...

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange...

The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange...

M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

For a writer only one form of patriotism exists: his attitude toward language.

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and...

There is scarcely any writer who has not celebrated the happiness of rural privacy, and...

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

I consider women who are authors, lawyers and politicians are monsters

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

No man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money.

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down...

You become a good writer just as you become a good joiner: by planing down...

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed

You cannot be a good writer of serious fiction if you are not depressed

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on...

If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the Ode on...