Fanaticism Quote by Cynthia Ozick

The romantic idea is that everybody around a writer must suffer for his talent. I think a writer is a citizen of humanity, part…

— Irwin Shaw

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

Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer's a good idea.

— Richard Ford

I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

— Siri Hustvedt

Writing is like getting married. One should never commit oneself until one is amazed at one's luck.

— Iris Murdoch

Marrying the right girl is even more imperative today than it was when I was 23 years old because it's so much harder to…

— Richard Ford

I think the one reason that writers marry other writers - one of the reasons that I married another writer - was, I fell…

— Heidi Julavits

I'm such a huge fan of fan fiction, to me it's a great way for readers to become writers. It's like putting the training…

— Hugh Howey

When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute.…

— Lorrie Moore

I'm drawn to women who live in a world different from my own. I don't believe you have to marry someone from your own…

— Matt Dillon

I think marriage is one of those things that writers draw on, one of those emotional reservoirs that go way back.

— Raymond Carver

A writer should be of as great probity and honesty as a priest of God. He is either honest or not, as a woman…

— Ernest Hemingway