Fiction Quote by Lynne Sharon Schwartz

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

I wanted to write; I sought all possible paths of personal liberation, but I could never sacrifice a living instant of life for the…

— Nina Berberova

A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that…

— Ronald Frame

The ability to be present with every single person and engage was a great model for me of the work that a writer needs…

— Sandra Cisneros

I had never written about what it's like to live the life of a writer, and I had never read a book that combined…

— Alice Mattison

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

— Katherine Mansfield

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

— Amy Tan

Good writing excites me, and makes life worth living.

— Harold Pinter

When I got older I decided I wanted to be a real writer. I tried to write about real things. I wanted to describe…

— Nicole Krauss

This sounds like a cliche, but I always wanted to write. After college, I did some writing and realized very quickly that it's hard…

— Hooman Majd

I gave myself the small task of writing honestly about the kind of life I knew. I believe there is some value in carrying…

— Sally Rooney

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna