Indeed, the great paradox of the writer's life is how much time he spends alone trying to connect with other people. — Betsy Lerner 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 writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab. — Mary Roberts Rinehart Copy Share Image
There comes a time in every writer's life when it becomes necessary to recognize what people really care about. — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people. — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct. — Mavis Gallant Copy Share Image
The writer's life: Hard days, lots of work, no money, too much silence. Nobody's fault. You chose it. — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!” — Christie Silvers Copy Share Image
I wanted to be a writer all my life. Since I was 10. And then at a certain point I began to… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a… — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
I lead a very conventional life. I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion… — Joan Didion Copy Share Image
A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I… — Ronald Frame Copy Share Image
I decided if I couldn't be a writer, my life would be miserable. I had this imaginary room of references to all… — Per Petterson Copy Share Image
Nothing needs to happen to a writer’s life after they are 20. By then they’ve experienced more than enough to last their… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely… — Anthony Minghella Copy Share Image
My father had an invisible job outside of the house; I didn't know what he did. But my kids were privy to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you… — Lauren B. Davis Copy Share Image
There's this great Ron Carlson story, "A Note on the Type," and it's about this guy who keeps escaping from prison. He's… — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had… — Anthony Copy Share Image
There is a great deal of busywork to a writer's life, as to a professor's life, a great deal of work that… — John Updike Copy Share Image
“Life gives us struggles first and reward later. And as a writer my life's purpose is to write and tell stories. Some… — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
The writer has a life and a personality but the problem of today is that most of those writers have exactly the… — Pascal Bruckner Copy Share Image
I have a romantic conception of the writer's life, and the sort of writer's life that I admire is probably a childless… — Rachel Cusk Copy Share Image
“I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I… — Bonnie Greer Copy Share Image
“Nearly every writer writes a book with a great amount of attention and intention and hopes and dreams. And it's important to… — Madeline Sharples Copy Share Image
“A writer’s life is half ambition and half anxiety, and there has to be both. It is no good writing a novel… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“. . .In a heartbeat, you will fall right into that novel, that poem, the story that you are most in love… — Terry Kennedy Copy Share Image
“You have to read widely, constantly refining (and redefining) your own work as you do so. It’s hard for me to believe… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“I am a writer. I have been a writer my whole life. Words are the only things I have ever believed in.… — Rachel Sandene Copy Share Image
“All my life and all my experience, the events that have befallen me, the people I have known, all my memories, dreams,… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“As a writer you slant all evidence in favor of the conclusions you want to produce and you rarely tilt in favor… — Bret Easton Ellis Copy Share Image
“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image
“An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.” — Shannon Alder Copy Share Image
Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life. — Jerzy Kosinski Copy Share Image
