Done Quote by Grace Paley

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

— Doris Lessing

It's easy, after all, not to be a writer. Most people aren't writers, and very little harm comes to them.

— Julian Barnes

...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

It's so easy, as a writer, to get stuck in your own head, to live in the little worlds you create. To forget that…

— Celeste Ng

I don't call myself a writer.

— Bruce Boxleitner

Really, in the end, the only thing that can make you a writer is the person that you are, the intensity of your feeling,…

— Santha Rama Rau

I just have a thing for writers. Maybe it because I'm just so not a writer.

— Patricia Clarkson

Really, as a writer, I believe that if you're going to write about your own life, you need to do it as honestly and…

— John Grogan

You have to live in order to have something to write about - you get caught up in moviemaking and celebrities and money, and…

— John Patrick Shanley

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

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

— Sylvia Brownrigg