“There are three certainties in a writer's life: death, taxes, and rejection letters.” — T.L. Rese Copy Share Image
You know, I look to myself mainly as a creative writer all my life and a medical doctor. — Nawal El Saadawi Copy Share Image
A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing” — Eugène Ionesco 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
Iam the writer of my life and its up to me to make my story interesting — Chwayita Betshe Copy Share Image
I've been a writer my whole life. I've just never pursued a career in it since I graduated college. — Scheana Shay Copy Share Image
Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work. — Kingsley Amis Copy Share Image
I always feel freelance writers are leading a heroic life. I think that is the real writer's life. On the other hand,… — Tom Paulin Copy Share Image
“You now get to decide for yourself just what the scope and clarity of your brilliance can be….This is the writer’s life.… — Scott Herndon Copy Share Image
The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Readers are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they think. The writer's… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“The writer’s life requires courage, patience, empathy, openness. It requires the ability to be alone with oneself. Gentle with oneself. To be… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
“Reading, for pleasure and knowledge, has always been, will always be one of my favorite things to do. (Larry Brown: A Writer's… — Larry Brown Copy Share Image
Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
A writer's life is so hazardous that anything he does is bad for him. Anything that happens to him is bad: failure's… — E. L. Doctorow Copy Share Image
“Readers," continued Miss Winter, "are fools. They believe all writing is autobiographical. And so it is, but not in the way they… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
A writer's life is a highly vulnerable, almost naked activity. We don't have to weep about that. The writer makes his choice… — Harold Pinter 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
I think that very often younger writers don't appreciate how much hard work is involved in writing. The part of writing that's… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“This piece of earth I billet grows small. Bullets of time dart past, dropping shards of opportunity at my feet. And until… — Chila Woychik Copy Share Image
The worst time in any writer's life is the two months before publication. ALL writers become mental and pathetic, even those of… — Anne Lamott 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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
“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
As a writer, there is only so much of your own life you can draw on. — Samuel Ervin Beam Copy Share Image
For a writer, life is always too short to write. I will just try my best during what remains of my life. — Cao Yu Copy Share Image
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