California Quote by Joan Didion

I don't lead a writer's life. And I think that can be a source of suspicion and irritation to some people.

— Joan Didion

I lead a normal life and I don't assume there is anything I can impart to people. The only reason to write a book…

— Patrick Duffy

I lead my life as normal.

— Jonathan King

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

I’m so revolted by writers taking themselves seriously that, as a kind of protest, I’ve deprioritized the role of writing in my life. I…

— Geoff Dyer

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

I did not consider that I would lead a literary life. I'd thought initially, as a young girl, that I would be a teacher,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

When I started writing after my career as an actor, I knew that that other life in the film industry would be pulled into…

— James Franco

Naturally, I've always felt more like a writer myself, and I've always written. I have people who are writers who've been promoting that side…

— Craig Bierko

I guess I've always wanted to create my own stories, but writing was one of those things where I thought that I would never…

— Erin Maya Darke

I don't live my life as a writer. I'm a mother, an African-American woman, and I do everything that everybody else does - cook…

— Terry McMillan

I believe - I know (there are not many things I should care to dogmatize about, on the subject of writing) that writers need…

— Nadine Gordimer