Am Quote by Isabel Allende

Don't put down too many roots in terms of a domicile. I have lived in four countries and I think my life as a…

— Arthur Hailey

In Colombia is where I discovered myself as a writer.

— Nicky Jam

I don't know if I had ever found my place in the world until I fully committed to being a writer.

— Jami Attenberg

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

— Doris Lessing

And you find as a writer there are certain spots on the planet where you write better than others, and I believe in that.…

— Jimmy Buffett

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

— JoAnn Ross

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 think I would be a writer if I had stayed in Chile. I would be trapped in the chores, in the family,…

— Isabel Allende

I began my writing career in a very isolated place and time.

— Lois McMaster Bujold

When I write, I tend to be quite cut off from the world. At that point of time, I'm not thinking about editors, publishers…

— Amish Tripathi

If you are a writer you're at home, which means you're out of touch. You have to make excuses to get out there and…

— Roddy Doyle

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley