Marriage Quote by Burton Rascoe

What no wife of a writer understands is that a writer is working when he's staring out the window.

— Burton Rascoe

“The hardest thing about being a writer is convincing your wife that lying on the sofa is work.”

— John Hughes

A writer is always working.

— William Zinsser

I think a writer is not an ideal husband... Writers tend to get off into their own heads and not notice the people that…

— Roy Blount, Jr

“The writer is always working on a book, even when not writing.”

— Antonio Callado

The writer works in a lonely way.

— Irwin Shaw

All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.

— Saul Bellow

“A writer is someone who spends years patiently trying to discover the second being inside him, and the world that makes him who he…

— Orhan Pamuk

While the novelist is banging on his typewriter, the poet is watching a fly in the windowpane.

— Billy Collins

“Writers don’t get time off. Every moment - waking or sleeping - a writer is working, observing, thinking and creating.”

— Graeme Roberts

The novelist helps us to see things we might not notice otherwise.

— Madeleine L'Engle

A writer is always working with whatever she's managed to store in the brainpan or puzzle out about the world.

— Anna Quindlen