Affair Quote by Hermione Lee

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

— Alfred Kazin

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the…

— Rebecca West

biographies are a little like marriages: You only have room in your life for one or two.

— Phyllis Rose

The writing career is not a romantic one. The writer's life may be colorful, but his work itself is rather drab.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

“Writing what you know" is about as much fun as having an affair with your spouse.”

— Gordon Highland

The answer to all writing, to any career for that matter, is love.

— Ray Bradbury

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

— Heidi Julavits

“There’s an analogy I came up with once for an interviewer who asked me how much of my material was autobiographical,” Octavia says. “I…

— Carolyn Parkhurst

When you've finished a piece of work you've had a kind of love affair with it.

— Rose Tremain

I loved writing something I'd never written before, and I wanted to write not just about "true love" but also a human relationship.

— Theodora Goss

In a lot of ways, being a writer is a lousy job - grueling, emotionally taxing, terrible hours, no health care - so if…

— Elif Batuman

Even in the midst of love-making, writers are working on the description.

— Mason Cooley