Lifestyle Quote by Norman Mailer

I believe that writers, unless they consider themselves terribly exquisite, are at heart people who live by night, a little bit outside society, moving…

— Guillermo Cabrera Infante

People don't become writers because they love having spontaneous, real-world interactions with living people as bodies with clothes in time.

— Elif Batuman

So many writers live their whole lives in rooms. You can be too civilised in the environment you have around you, too oriented towards…

— Lawrence Osborne

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

If you want to be a writer, you don't want to live in a comfortable place.

— Benjamin Alire Saenz

There's always this sense of incredulity that writers feel, because they're usually living flat and ordinary lives, because they have to.

— Doris Lessing

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others,…

— Rebecca Solnit

Writers tend to be addicted to houses ... We work at home, indulging the agoraphobia endemic to our kind. We are immersed in our…

— Erica Jong

I think writers tend to be experience junkies, and I think they also tend to want to be on the outside looking in.

— Augusten Burroughs

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

— Annie Dillard

Writers do not come out of houses without books.

— Doris Lessing

It's deprivation that makes people writers, if they have it in them to be a writer.

— William Maxwell