Doe Quote by Mavis Gallant

I think of novels as houses. You live in them over the course of a long period, both as a reader and as a…

— Nicole Krauss

I see myself as a writer who happens to garden.

— Monty Don

A writer's work often reflects what he or she has been exposed to in life; experiences which are the groundwork of a poem or…

— Eyvind Johnson

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time and in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

One writes to make a home for oneself, on paper, in time, in others' minds.

— Alfred Kazin

when I talk about a writing life, I'm talking about a life in which writing is the dominant response to living.

— Julia Cameron

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

A novelist has a specific poetic license which also applies to his own life.

— Jerzy Kosinski

The life of every person is like a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another.

— Anonymous

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must write not outside it or merely somewhere near…

— Frances Hodgson Burnett

“Novels are written—as life is lived—One Day At A Time.”

— Lawrence Block

A novelist has two lives-- a reading and writing life, and a lived life. he or she cannot be understood at all apart from…

— Jane Smiley