Ambitious Quote by J. K. Rowling

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

— Gore Vidal

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

Being a writer is a poverty trap. I mean, it's a terrible profession.

— Pat Barker

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

“But there is also the minority of gifted, wilful people who are determined to live their own lives to the end, and writers belong…

— George Orwell

What is very troubling is that people who have tried to write literature, even, for example, proletarian writers, seem to write within the norms…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Bill Vaughan

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

— Anita Brookner

“There must always be a fringe of the experimental in literature--poems bizarre in form and curious in content, stories that overreach for what has…

— Henry Seidel Canby

I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

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

— Jarvis Cocker

Writing is probably the least glamorous profession there is. This doesn't change when you become an author.

— Rebecca Serle