Business Quote by Eve Babitz

“Maybe she needed more library time in her life. More hushed time among rows of books waiting to be accidently discovered, rather than deliberately…

— Karen Doornebos

“The writer's business is to find the shape in unruly life and to serve her story.”

— Dorothy Gallagher

...she felt about reading what some writers felt about writing: that it was impossible not to do it and that at this late stage…

— Alan Bennett

“And when she was home, she spent her days lolling about the house reading mystery novels, watching television, and drinking wine. She watered and…

— Kathy Cooperman

“She had interviewed leading personalities all over the world. Fame was sufficiently novel for me to be flattered by the company I would be…

— Henry Kissinger

“Here she was, barely twenty-eight, working on a studio lot, not doing what she’d dreamed, exactly, but doing what people did in this business:…

— Jess Walter

“A writer, an author or a poet does not write because of a public or herself. She lives by a great youth.”

— Petra Hermans

“She had reached the age of seventeen, without having seen one amiable youth who could call forth her sensibility, without having inspired one real…

— Jane Austen

“From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely again, never miss the lack of intimate friends.…

— Betty Smith

“ and some of the people i knew were contemplating our circumstances. our circumstances being poorly paid jobs if we worked in the arts,…

— Sloane Crosley

“Even if you never get published, no one can take away your joy in writing, which is why you should be doing it anyway.”

— Jennifer Dechiara

“What would life be like without her writing? Writing filled her life with beauty and mystery, gave it life...and promise.”

— Maud Hart Lovelace