Life Quote by Michael Dirda

“and yet the original Writers at Work volumes, especially the first three, possessed a magic all their own. As a teenager, I virtually memorized…

— Michael Dirda

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

“Could a literary life be referred to with the iambic pentameter of, say, harnessing wind power, transplanting hearts or saving the whales. Or did…

— Anita Nair

In political life, dissatisfaction is remedied, or at least combated, through action. For as long as you are not totally satisfied, you remain active…

— Emmanuel Macron

If I had a staff of even one person, or could tolerate a small amphetamine habit, or entertain the possibility of weekly blood transfusions,…

— Lorrie Moore

Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a…

— Paul Theroux

The biggest misconception that people have about the literary life is the romance of it. That a writer has this large world available to…

— Walter Mosley

“For twenty years I have sat alone at a desk tinkering with sentences and then sending them out, and for most of my literary…

— Rebecca Solnit

There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make…

— Raymond Chandler

Desmond O'Grady is one of the senior figures in Irish Literary life, exemplary in the way he has committed himself over the decades to…

— Seamus Heaney

I entered literary life as a meteor, and I shall leave it like a thunderbolt.

— Guy de Maupassant

There are a lot of us, some published, some not, who think the literary life is the loveliest one possible, this life of reading…

— Anne Lamott