There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer. — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
The best life for a writer is the life which helps him write the best books he can. — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
“The Ordinary is Extraordinary ..." my motto for life as a writer/Mom/woman” — Lisa Barr Copy Share Image
You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death. — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
I don't need to do things I'm not capable of to please others.I am the director of my life,the writer of my… — Abhishek Tiwari Copy Share Image
What has stayed true in my life as a writer is my dedication to writing - I try to write every day,… — Denise Duhamel Copy Share Image
Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is directed by a mad impulsive muse, that can tell them to cancel all their storyline: a… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
To all my librarian friends, champions of books, true magicians in the House of Life. Without you, this writer would be lost… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There will be some trouble about 'biography' because I have never troubled myself to supply particulars of my early life to any… — Arthur Wing Pinero Copy Share Image
When, in the autumn of 1947, I was fired from the first and only job I have ever held, I wanted one… — William Styron Copy Share Image
I've had a family my entire adult life; I started raising kids when I was 21. I suspect that being part of… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
Writers don't always know what they mean - that's why they write. Their work stands in for them. On the page, the… — John Lahr Copy Share Image
So that the life of a writer, whatever he might fancy to the contrary, was not so much a state of composition,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
Returning to writing fiction after 13 years away from it. Returning to the rootstock of my whole life as a writer. It's… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Life as a writer was not what I expected. I knew no other writers. I knew no writing teachers or editors. I… — Lee Siegel Copy Share Image
I was one of those kids who looks really good on paper, I tested very well, I went to a fancy college,… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I don't know much about creative writing programs. But they're not telling the truth if they don't teach, one, that writing is… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
“He tries to go to life. So does every author except the very worst, but after all most of them live on… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
“I wrote the last sentence of The Patron Saint of Liars in early April and stumbled out of my apartment and into… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“I’ve tried to teach my writing friends that there are two arts: number one, getting a thing done; and then, the second… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
Think of a book special to you, and how much bleaker and poorer your life would be if that one writer had… — Sarah Rees Brennan Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
Even the most incorrigible maverick has to be born somewhere. He may leave the group that produced him-he may be forced to-but… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life… — Arthur Hailey Copy Share Image
“It should surprise no one that the life of the writer--such as it is--is colorless to the point of sensory deprivation. Many… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
“This is my attempt to make sense of the period that followed, weeks and then months that cut loose any fixed idea… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
“I do not write every day. I write to the questions and issues before me. I write to deadlines. I write out… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to… — Roald Dahl Copy Share Image
I started out life as a writer, and writers write in part because they don't want to talk. — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life… — Jose Saramago Copy Share Image
I don't read my own books, but sometimes if there is a new edition I open it and then I feel this… — Peter Handke Copy Share Image
I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does… — Terry McMillan Copy Share Image
