Writing is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of…

“Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences every thing twice. Once in reality and once in that mirror which waits always…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

To have children is a double living, the earthly fountain of youth, a continual fresh delight, a volcano as well as a fountain, and…

— Josephine Winslow Johnson

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

I think writing kind of burns out the flaming question. Sometimes it might feel like when you're living with certain paradoxes and they're unarticulated,…

— Maggie Nelson

I would go to the studio and then I'd go back on tour and then I would come off and go on. And so…

— Maisie Peters

I make my living writing songs and, you know, I'm not a show biz kind of guy.

— J. J. Cale

I've always just wanted to earn my living by writing. The best thing is to go into my study in the morning and stay…

— Robert Harris

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

Have a working spouse, because you won't earn a living from writing - not at first, if ever. My wife worked for years to…

— Piers Anthony

If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

— Sting

Before I became a writer, I was running a jazz bar in the center of Tokyo, which means that I worked in filthy air…

— Haruki Murakami

The traditional statement about language is that it is in itself living, and that writing is the dead part of language.

— Jacques Derrida

It's very unlikely that a writer is going to make a living by writing. So then the question is: how do you balance work,…

— Kelly Link

You won't make a living writing until you learn to write when you don't want to.

— Chelsea Cain

“Yeah, I know what your English Professor tried to tell you. But if your English Professor could make a living writing fiction, they would…

— Dean Wesley Smith