It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
To make your life being a writer, it's an auto-slavery ... you are both the slave and the task-master. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The life of a writer is tragic: the more we advance, the farther there is to go and the more there is… — Gabrielle Roy Copy Share Image
What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer’s life seemed the most inclusive. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Gordon Lightfoot looms pretty large in my life as a writer and an artist in general. I never travel anywhere without at… — Ron Sexsmith Copy Share Image
I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I sometimes have the sense that I live my life as a writer with my nose pressed against the wide, shiny plate… — Jan Clausen Copy Share Image
Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity,… — Lynne Sharon Schwartz Copy Share Image
Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death… — Edna Ferber Copy Share Image
“Perhaps, too, you will then believe that nothing is more wonderful, nothing more fantastic than real life, and that all that a… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book… — Alice Mattison Copy Share Image
Dad has worked as a banker at the same firm in Boston, living in the same suburban neighborhood for over 50 years.… — Amor Towles Copy Share Image
“Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer. Writers have no one to… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
More than a half, maybe as much as two-thirds of my life as a writer is rewriting. I wouldn't say I have… — John Irving Copy Share Image
But the real life of a writer resides in showing up at the keyboard every day, with the necessary patience and mercy,… — Steve Almond Copy Share Image
“Life can't ever really defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death--… — Cara Swann Copy Share Image
No writer, I believe, should attempt a novel before he is thirty, and not then unless he has been hopelessly and helplessly… — Pearl S. Buck Copy Share Image
