Class Quote by Derek Raymond

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

— J. K. Rowling

There isn't much I find interesting to write about in middle-class life.

— Jarvis Cocker

It is from the middle class that writers spring, because, it is in the middle class only that the practice of writing is as…

— Virginia Woolf

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

I'm a middle-class, middle-brow novelist. And that's it. It amuses me.

— Anita Brookner

If any writer thinks the world is full of middle class people of nice sensibilities, then he is out of his mind.

— Bill Vaughan

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

— Gore Vidal

There has to be a certain relationship between the life and the writing style, and that is really a problem.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The middle class is doing fine in fiction. But it's not what gets me going. I love the working class, and everyone from it…

— Martin Amis

I don't have the notion that everybody has to write in some single academic style

— Clifford Geertz

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

For those who can do it and who keep their nerve, writing for a living still beats most real, grown-up jobs hands down.

— Terence Blacker