Writers Life Quotes

Writers are nothing but beggars with a good line.

The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

I am a writer who came of a sheltered life. A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts from within.

Old age treats freelance writers pretty gently.

Many writers do little else but sit in small rooms recalling the real world.

When you're not writing, you're not doing anything else either because everything you do goes into the writing.

At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.

I'm happy to work until I'm 70 if I'm able to. Actually, I'm happy to keep writing as long as people keep buying my books.

Writers get exactly the right amount of fame: just enough to get a good table in a restaurant but not enough so that people are constantly interrupting you while you're eating dinner.

The wonderful thing about being a writer is that everything that happens is grist to the mill.

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure of others and finally for money.

I feel like one can have all of that as a writer; you're writing, you're reading, you're talking to interesting and intelligent people. Your life is structured around whatever book you're writing, and so is your reading and so are many of your conversations.

He'd heard that writers spent all day in their dressing gowns drinking champagne. This is, of course, absolutely true.

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school is good training for writers because it's so desperately lacking in privacy: you make space for yourself by having an interior life.

One of the great rewards of a writer's life is that it lets you read all the books you want to without feeling guilty.

Most writers live in self-imposed exile, even when they don't leave their country. They prefer the undiscovered country inside their own heads.

A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom.