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Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you've heard is true.

Writers have a well-deserved reputation for being eccentric. Everything you’ve heard is true.
– Sara Sheridan

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  1. Writers are, as a profession, nothing if not eccentric. – Sara Sheridan
  2. The fact that none of these civic worriers had ever heard of such a case was unimportant, because they all had heard of somebody who had heard of it! – Sinclair Lewis
  3. Ruth knew very well what the killer thought he had heard: he’d heard the sound of someone trying not to make a sound – that’s what he’d heard. – John Irving
  4. If you can dispense with reputation, then you are free from care. Reputation is only a visitor, but reality is here to stay. – Liezi
  5. Your reputation is in the hands of others. That’s what the reputation is. You can’t control that. The only thing you can control is your character. – Wayne W Dyer
  6. Be more concerned with character than reputation. Character is what you are, reputation is what people think you are. – John Wooden
  7. It is difficult to make a reputation, but is even more difficult seriously to mar a reputation once properly made — so faithful is the public. – Arnold Bennett
  8. Writers of novels live in a strange world where what’s made up is as important as what’s real. – Sara Sheridan
  9. There are as many different kinds of books as there are writers – as many different responses as there are readers. – Sara Sheridan
  10. Everyone assumes writers spend their time lounging around, writing and occasionally striking a pose whilst having a think. – Sara Sheridan
  11. Being able to read well in public and talk about your work in an engaging fashion is part of most writers’ job specification. – Sara Sheridan
  12. Crime writers, I’ve noticed, can be jumpy. They live in a world where there are murderers on the loose and they haven’t been caught yet! – Sara Sheridan
  13. Writers need each other. – Sara Sheridan
  14. I’d never be where I am if more successful writers hadn’t taken an interest in me and done me a good turn. – Sara Sheridan
  15. Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops. – Sara Sheridan
  16. Scotland consistently produces world-class writers. – Sara Sheridan
  17. They were queen bitches and it seemed everyone and everything they knew and everyone and everything they didn’t know deserved some kind of criticism. – SA Tawks
  18. Have not women preferred hatred to indifference, and the reputation of witchcraft, with all its penalties, to absolute insignificance? – J Sheridan Le Fanu
  19. Jack had been the love of her life and he was gone. It seemed now that there had never been bad times, though she knew that wasn’t true.-¨ – Sara Sheridan
  20. He’d heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true. – Terry Pratchett
  21. It occurred to me that as a man I could do anything, everything I wanted. – Sara Sheridan
  22. It’s part of a writer’s job to be nosy about everything. – Sara Sheridan
  23. Everything is light, everything is warmth, everything is electricity, everything is a magnetic field, everything is you. – LH
  24. Oh my God. Party punch. He’d brought a woman with the social age of twelve to the Citadel. He deserved everything he got. – Annabel Joseph
  25. The importance of solitude is to help you to differentiate your own thoughts from those you have studied, read, heard, or unintentionally absorbed. – Tonya Sheridan
  26. I am a Smedry, and we do ridiculous, unexpected, eccentric things like this all the time! Ha-ha! – Brandon Sanderson
  27. People might consider you eccentric for being different, but this is good. Leaders and visionaries are not conformists afraid of standing out. – Fennel Hudson
  28. I’m a classic eccentric, living at the extremes of high mania and low mood. There’s no middle ground, only madness and sadness. – Fennel Hudson
  29. My pockets had always puzzled Weena, but at the last she had concluded that they were an eccentric kind of vase for floral decoration. – HG Wells
  30. I’m not crazy or dangerous,just a bit eccentric and lonely. – Emma Forrest
  31. To lose what we never owned might seem an eccentric Bereavement but Presumption has its Affliction as actually as Claim — – Emily inson
  32. You be careful, Wizard. Interestingly eccentric friends aren’t easy to find. – Dean Koontz
  33. Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream. – Lawren Leo
  34. Those with the money are eccentric. Those without, insane. – Bruce Robinson
  35. They tell me to be quietWhen I’d rather cause a riotAnd have everyone screamingOut their eccentric meaning. – Initially NO
  36. Stubborness and staunch, they are both same thingsfrom different point of view, such crazy and eccentric. – Toba Beta
  37. Her name is Emmilina. She is quite eccentric and was Thomas’s best friend. – Jessica Fortunato
  38. Just because it’s something original, eccentric or you’re not used to it; doesn’t mean it’s wrong. – Sandra Chami Kassis
  39. Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad. – Jenny Offill
  40. I am not eccentric. It’s just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish. – Edith Sitwell

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