Life Quote by Susan Sontag

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

Writing means being a fascinated slave to current events.

— Anonymous

But what's a writer for? The whole point is to put yourself into other lives, other heads-writers have always done that. If you screw…

— Grace Paley

One has to live a life that creates a writer.

— Erno Paasilinna

Writing is a cop-out. An excuse to live perpetually in fantasy land, where you can create, direct and watch the products of your own…

— Monica Dickens

Being a writer is an endless study in human transition and lessons learned or forgotten or misapplied.

— Sloane Crosley

To be a writer is to throw away a great deal, not to be satisfied, to type again, and then again and once more,…

— John Hersey

One of the great perks of being a writer is that you can work when you're mentally capable of it, not when someone else…

— Diana Gabaldon

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want…

— Katherine Paterson

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

— Amy Tan

The real skill of being a writer is being able to take your inspired moments, and make them work as a whole, through the…

— Nick Blaemire

Perhaps it would be better not to be a writer, but if you must, then write.

— J. B. Priestley