Good thing Quote by Neil Gaiman

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

So, you know, I think any life has in it enough material, enough points of departure, to fuel a writer's career and that we…

— John Updike

Writing is making sense of life.

— Nadine Gordimer

Once I got started, I wanted the life of a writer so fiercely that nothing could stop me. I wanted the intensity, the sense…

— Lynne Sharon Schwartz

I completely believe that - literature for me is a way of life. That's probably true of all writers or all artists. I think…

— Mario Vargas Llosa

I also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life.

— Esther Forbes

Writers shouldn't have lives that are interesting. It gets in the way of your work.

— Salman Rushdie

Writing is not life, but I think that sometimes it can be a way back to life.

— Stephen King

Being a writer is great because you get to come up with stuff.

— Courtney A. Kemp

The function of a writer is to make sense of life. It is such a mystery, it changes all the time, like the light.

— Nadine Gordimer

Most of us dont live lives that lend themselves to novelistic expression, because our lives are so fragmented.

— Tobias Wolff