Careers Quote by John Updike

And life is a good thing for a writer. It's where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop…

— Neil Gaiman

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

— Doris Lessing

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

To be alive and to be a ‘writer’ is enough.

— Katherine Mansfield

It's OK just to be a writer, who writes about the society in which he lives and the issues that most important. Now how…

— Arundhati Roy

“But for the rest of us, we should be regularly reassessing why we write. When we know what we’re going for (human impact? fame?…

— Tasha Golden

There's no reason that a writer, if they have some discipline and curiosities and passion, can't be vital for a long, long time.

— Peter Hedges

“The ultimate goal of any writer is to explore the lightest and darkest aspects of being. If a writer accomplishes this task, the work…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

“Being a writer is an important job because we bring emotion and imagination into a world filled with endless, inane chatter.”

— Jennifer Probst

I believe that, in an ideal world, writers would feel free to write what matters to them without having to consider success, failure, the…

— Claire Messud

“Everybody is born with a little bit of writer in them. We all come with the desire to work hard to see our creations…

— Brian A. McBride