Life Quote by Betsy Lerner

“For most writers, reading is also a very intense experience; they don’t read so much as compete. The writer measure’s himself against every text…

— Betsy Lerner

“Writing, at its best, is a lonely life. Organizations for writers palliate the writer's loneliness but I doubt if they improve his writing. He…

— Ernest Hemingway

“Being a writer guarantees that you will spend too much time alone -- and that as a result, your mind will begin to warp.”

— Anne Lamott

Two hours of writing fiction leaves this writer completely drained. For those two hours he has been in a different place with totally different…

— Roald Dahl

“A writer's life is never boring when you have imaginary friends to play with!”

— Christie Silvers

“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”

— George Bernard Shaw

“A writer is never alone, he is always with himself”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“...a book provides for a distillation of our sporadic mind, a record of its most vital manifestations, a concentration of inspired moments that might…

— Alain de Botton

“Every writer is first a member of a community of readers, and the deepest purpose of reading and writing fiction is to sustain a…

— Jonathan Franzen

“The life of a writer is absolute hell compared with the life of a businessman. The writer has to force himself to work. He…

— Roald Dahl

“Writing novels allows the novelist to spend much of his time in a fictional world, which is really the only or at least the…

— Javier Marías

The good writer seems to be writing about himself, but has his eye always on that thread of the Universe which runs through himself…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson