Act Quote by Patti Davis

I've carved out a career for myself really as a writer.

— Tori Amos

I'd never be where I am if more successful writers hadn't taken an interest in me and done me a good turn - be…

— Sara Sheridan

- I don't want to be a writer so I can write about my life. I want to be a writer to escape from…

— Candace Bushnell

I've been writing all my life. Even though I didn't have sort of careerist aspirations as a writer, it was very much my identity.

— Ayana Mathis

Truth be told, when you start your career out as a clown, you don't consider yourself a writer.

— Lizz Winstead

As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.

— Zoe Cassavetes

You have to give up a great deal of life, your personal life, to be a writer.

— Doris Lessing

If you believe you can make a living as a writer, you already have enough ego.

— David Brin

“I had been a writer all of my life, every waking second, and now that part of my life was over. I suppose the…

— Bonnie Greer

What's lucky about my career in general is that I stumbled into what every writer most wants. Not repeating myself and doing strange things…

— Jonathan Lethem

I may not have become a good writer, but I managed to make a living out of writing.

— Ruskin Bond

There's an old hymn called 'How Can I Keep from Singing?' That's what writing feels like to me. I have to write. It's intrinsic…

— Sarah Addison Allen