Being Quote by Andrew Sean Greer Download Open image “A downside to being a successful novelist? Wow - I can't imagine one.” — Andrew Sean Greer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Being Downside Imagine Novelist Success Wow
The downside of being a writer is you get plenty of time to overthink your life. — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
As soon as you become a writer, you lose contact with ordinary experience or tend to. ... the worst fate of a writer is… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work. — Alexandra Fuller Copy Share Image
Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job. — Jennifer Weiner Copy Share Image
One of the biggest, and possibly the biggest, obstacle to becoming a writer... is learning to live with the fact that the wonderful story… — Robin McKinley Copy Share Image
The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears. — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
Being a novelist, you can roam around with a story and indulge yourself. — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
My first novel was turned down by half a dozen publishers. And even after having published five or six books, I wasn't making enough… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author. — Rebecca Serle Copy Share Image
It takes too much imagination to see the sorrows of people we take for happy. Their real battles take place, like those of the… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
They say you hit your stride as a writer at about 50. I'm hoping to do that. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“Then I traveled. Quite a bit, in fact. You have to stockpile a few beautiful vistas in your memory, Pearlie. In case we're rationed… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“To give up a marriage - someone unmarried might imagine it's like giving up a seat in a theater, or sacrificing a trick in bridge for the possibility of better, later. But it is harsher than anyone could realize: a hot invisible fire, burning pieces of hope and fantasy, and charred bits of the past. It had to go, however,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share
“Standing on the deck of a San Francisco ferryboat, in a gray suit so precisely the same colour as the fog that he seems… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
“A rosewater smell from the box summoned, instantly, a dictatorial woman with a tight bun, hectoring him with questions. The cut, the buttons, the pockets, the collar. But most of all: the blue. Chosen in haste from a wall of fabrics: not an ordinary blue. Peacock? Lapis? Nothing gets close. Medium but vivid, moderately lustrous, definitely bold. Somewhere between ultramarine… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share
Does love always form, like a pearl, around the hardened bits of life? — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I was raised Unitarian, and my mother said she took us to church so that we wouldn't get religious later in life. — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
Because of the womb being a central phenomenon in the feminine body, the whole psychology of woman differs: she is non-aggressive, non-inquiring, non-questioning, non-doubting,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts. — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
There is something magical about being able to feel somebody. And that is something that has always moved me with music. — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
I love being in Malibu. It's so cool there, and the water is just, it's nice and, and I love the beach. And I… — Jackie Evancho Copy Share Image
I talk to my mates about our kids, being too tired and being worn out. — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley Copy Share Image
When you're in your twenties and starting out, the problem is that you care about being cool. Being older, I can care less about… — James Righton Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world. — Nas Copy Share
If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Having small children and being an investigative reporter would seem like a difficult mix, but it worked well for me. I was often working… — Jill Abramson Copy Share Image
