Normal person Quote by Brian Moore

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

I am not a writer except when I write.

— Juan Carlos Onetti

There is an invisible aspect of being a writer; none of it is about you. It's about your work, and that's what it should…

— Abi Morgan

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

— Erica Brown

Writing, I think, is not apart from living. Writing is a kind of double living. The writer experiences everything twice. Once in reality and…

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

Becoming a writer is about becoming conscious. When you're conscious and writing from a place of insight and simplicity and real caring about the…

— Anne Lamott

I've been a writer my whole life.

— Scheana Shay

Being a writer is a very peculiar sort of a job: it's always you versus a blank sheet of paper (or a blank screen)…

— Neil Gaiman

Writing is a solitary business. It takes over your life. In some sense, a writer has no life of his own. Even when he’s…

— Paul Auster

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