Building Quote by Virginia Woolf

There is plenty of ambitious competition and hypocrisy in the middle class, which makes it a rather fertile environment for a writer.

— J. K. Rowling

Anyone who conceives of writing as an agreeable stroll towards a middle-class life-style will never write anything but crap.

— Derek Raymond

Most writers are middle-class and are the children of doctors or lawyers.

— Gore Vidal

“Writing requires a prolong period of academic education supplemented by studiously scrutinizing society and its customs. Writers also analyze their own nature and physical…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

— Thomas Berger

Writing is making sense of life. You work your whole life and perhaps you've made sense of one small area.

— Nadine Gordimer

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

Writing is a noble privilege compared with the lot of most people, who live like parts of a machine, who live only to keep…

— Blaise Cendrars

“Young writers find out what kinds of writers they are by experiment. If they choose from the outset to practice exclusively a form of…

— John McPhee

When writing becomes too dominant, it gets leached of its own power. We spend more and more time writing and we have less and…

— Julia Cameron

Writing is a trade ... which is learned by writing.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Writing is primarily a sensuous and creative expression of life.

— Meridel Le Sueur