There was nothing glorious about the life of a drinker or the life of a writer.
If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
I've always said the hardest aspect of the job of being a writer is writing.
In a sense, being a full-time writer is less fun because there's no office to go to anymore, there's no set routine, there's no schedule. It can be quite isolating.
The joy for me as a writer is that, despite the fact I spend most of my life on my own in a room eating too much chocolate and drinking too much tea, eventually they let me out into the world.
The dull externals of the screenwriter's working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
A great writer requires a great biography, and a great biography must tell the truth.
The life of a writer is absolute hell compared to the life of a businessman.
I think it's quite difficult to understand what kind of life a writer leads. They might be millionaires, or they might be starving people.
Being a writer is a rather hazardous occupation and there is a horribly high rate of writers who barely have the money for the paper and pen they use for their craft.
I do different work, teaching and running around visiting universities and bookstores, and that prevents me from writing. But it's nice to be wanted as a writer.
I love the village in my computer. There's little validation in the day-to-day life of a writer; sometimes we ache for a connection.
Being a writer is a solitary life. So the little part of me that's an actor still enjoys the theatrical part of reading and doing the voices and telling the story.
It must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.
I had to sell my house and make a lot of sacrifices to become a writer, and it sucks not to get taken seriously.
It's all chaos and the house is occasionally filthy but I get to stand at the school gates. Writers are so lucky to have that flexibility.
That's like one of the things - you know, being a writer, it's not just like they're constantly like giving you jobs and shows. There was some lean years, man, and - well, a lean year and a half. 'Woe is me.' Right?
