Ass Quote by Melissa Febos

That is how you get to be a writer, incidentally: you feel somehow marginal, somehow slightly off-balance all the time.

— Kurt Vonnegut

For me, writing started as pleasure that became professionalized, so my relationship to it is a bit sullied. I'm working it out.

— Katrina Onstad

It is only through having a stable loving partnership that I began to feel in control enough to attempt a strict writing discipline, to…

— Kate Zambreno

I made an awful mess of my first marriage. It was hard to live with me being me. I was so abnormal. I mean,…

— John le Carre

I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind…

— Ariel Levy

I decided to write about the myths of divorce.

— Mary Garden

Writers don't make good spouses. When I am writing, I'm not a good wife. I shut myself away, and all my emotions are directed…

— Claire Tomalin

If I could say anything to aspiring writers, it's to keep your own counsel, first and foremost.

— Elizabeth Berg

I've basically thought of myself as a writer, whether I was or not.

— Bob Schieffer

I found that married life gave me the necessary freedom to follow an ambition which had been with me since childhood; and so I…

— Jean Plaidy

I didn't do anything as active as deciding that I wanted to be a writer. For one thing, I didn't feel like I was…

— Kelly Link

I am married to a writer, and this - writing - is an odd enterprise. It's something we both support very strongly.

— Siri Hustvedt