Being Quote by Jean Stafford

One of the things I learned from my father, and it did not serve me well at all, was that he was a successful…

— Michael Tolkin

Everything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life.

— Patricia Reilly Giff

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I…

— Ernest Gaines

Knowledge has been a passion with me during my whole life, one which has not lost its charm to the present day.

— Liliʻuokalani

Everything I know about life I learned from the daily practice of sitting down to write.

— Dani Shapiro

Most of my life wasn't about knowledge from books, but experiential knowledge.

— Matisyahu

What I write about in my novels is also what's in my life.

— Elin Hilderbrand

For me, one of the privileges of being a writer is to poke your nose around and learn about worlds you don't know.

— Gavid Hood

For me, writing is something that I need to do. If I'm not writing, I'm not happy.

— Crystal Hana Kim

When writing isn't going well-then the bad thing about being a writer is that I also have the freedom and flexibility to do something…

— Margaret Haddix

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

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton