Actor Quote by Sophie Dahl

Writing was the soul of everything else ... Wanting to be a writer was wanting to be a person.

— Patricia Hampl

It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life.

— Amy Tan

Never forget that the truest luxury is imagination, and that being a writer gives you the leeway to exploit all of the imagination's curious…

— Andrew Solomon

I didn't think being a writer was a fancy thing. It was a job like any other job, except apparently you could do it…

— Amy Bloom

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

— Doris Lessing

I have always aspired to be a writer, be it as an author or a screenwriter, whatever the medium.

— Kanika Dhillon

As a writer, all you want to do is write for great actors. That's all.

— Amy Sherman-Palladino

Working with great writers can be humbling and frightening, but it can also change you for good, forever.

— Zadie Smith

I always just wanted to be a writer, not necessarily a particular kind of writer.

— Jill Lepore

That's the advantage of being a writer: No matter what happens, as long as you survive it, it goes into the work.

— Alexandra Fuller

The triumph of writing fiction is that by doing so, writers can build a more ideal world in themselves.

— Lauren Groff

I really think that as good of a job as you do as a writer, you're absolutely indebted to the actors that have to…

— Carlton Cuse