Blink Quote by Robert B. Parker

Still, I kept writing. I had no guarantee that I would someday win awards for writing. Heavens, the only person during that time who…

— Katherine Paterson

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 was given the opportunity to write the kind of book that I wanted to write, rather than one that catalogues where I sang…

— Jessye Norman

My life revolves around my writing, my wife and my son.

— James Patterson

I have abandoned so many projects but in the '80s when I left public life to be married and have real children - I…

— Patti Smith

Before the arrival of my first son, I gave up on the moribund business of magazine publishing, where I had long dreamed of a…

— Rumaan Alam

All I wanted to do was write - at the time, poems, and prose, too. I guess my ambition was simply to make money…

— Paul Auster

I knew I wanted to be a writer and I knew if I had a wife and family, I would neglect something, and I…

— Ernest Gaines

For several decades, I believed it was necessary to be extraordinary if you wanted to write, and since I wasn't, I gave up my…

— Diane Setterfield

During my first marriage, my career was the most important thing in my life.

— Michael Douglas

In retrospect, it seems like everything in my life led to me becoming a writer. I just didn't realise it at the time.

— Kate Morton

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

— Faye Dunaway