Writer's Life Quotes
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“A writers life suits me. Its fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but thats fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy.”
— Ronald Frame —
— Bill Barich
“If you are a real writer, then just surrender to the writer's life, all of it, even the bad stuff. When you do that, the beauty appears: the peace, the meaning, the joy, the fulfillment, the sense that you are doing what you were born to do and what could be better, in the end, than that?”
— Lauren B. Davis
— Larry Brown
“What is difficult is the promotion, balancing the public side of a writer's life with the writing. I think that's something a lot of writers are having to face. Writers have become much more public now.”
— Kazuo Ishiguro
— Mary Roberts Rinehart
“'Et Tu, Babe' was born out of my absolute certainty that a writer's life was solitary and insular, and I was happy with that. I love reading and writing; it's my whole life.”
— Mark Leyner
“Reading is the creative center of a writer's life. -”
— Stephen King
— Nick Harkaway
“How do we live the writer's life? There's only one simple answer: 'we write.'”
— Dani Shapiro
“What I really wanted was every kind of life, and the writer's life seemed the most inclusive.”
— Susan Sontag
“In our marriage it was our practice not to share anything that was upsetting, depressing, demoralizing, tedious-unless it was unavoidable. Because so much in a writer's life can be distressing-negative reviews, rejections by magazines, difficulties with editors, publishers, book designers-disappointment with one's own work, on a daily/hourly basis!-it seemed to me a very good idea to shield Ray from this side of my life as much as I could. For what is the purpose of sharing your misery with another person, except to make that person miserable, too?”
— Joyce Carol Oates
— Joan Didion
“An inspirational writer's life is an open book that never shuts. Choose your words carefully.”
— Shannon L. Alder
“Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience ... Moving ... compassionate.”
— Leigh Newman
“Loafing is the most productive part of a writer's life.”
— James Norman Hall
“My best experience as a writer was working with Michael Ondaatje. He let me dismantle his novel, reimagine it, and still had dinner with me and gave me good notes. But the best thing about writing has been the writer's life, the sense of being expressed, the ownership of the day, the entirely specious sense of freedom we have, however slave we are to some boss or other. I wouldn't trade it for any other life.”
— Anthony
“A writer's life stands in relation to his work as a house does to a garden, related but distinct.”
— Mavis Gallant
“The writer's life seethes within but not without.”
— Anthony Burgess
— Flannery O'Connor
“The writer's life is a life of revisions.”
— Jonathan Franzen
“A writer's life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.”
— Joyce Carol Oates
“The writer's life [is] full of frailty and defeat like any other life. What counts is the work. Yet the work can quite easily be buried, or half-buried, by the life.”
— Julian Barnes
“Whatever part drink may play in the writer's life, it must play none in his or her work.”
— Kingsley Amis
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