Britain Quote by Alain de Botton

Because I've a track record of talking about books I never write, in Australia they think I'm about to write a book about Jane…

— Kate Atkinson

I'm probably one of the few authors in this country who could very comfortably live off my writing.

— Ravi Subramanian

As a writer one doesn’t belong anywhere. Fiction writers, I think, are even more outside the pale, necessarily on the edge of society. Because…

— William Trevor

I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I…

— Anne Enright

In fact, in Europe, I'm more kind of this bloke what writes lots of stuff.

— David Bowie

I wrote about the life of a housing officer in Britain, in a pretty rough area of London. Maybe it was because I'm a…

— Ben Richards

I'm not much of a correspondent. My letters are not only uninteresting but sparse. I'm glad I don?t have to write for a living.…

— Groucho Marx

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

— J. K. Rowling

Here I am, where I ought to be. A writer must have a place where he or she feels this, a place to love…

— Louise Erdrich

You can be a writer who doesnt read everyday. But youre not fooling anyone. It shows, rather embarrassingly, in your work.

— Don Roff

I write everywhere. I've written books while I was on planes, at Disney World, and in multiple countries of which I am not a…

— Seanan McGuire

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi