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.
Being a writer can be isolating. It's good to be among readers and booksellers.
The dull externals of the screenwriter's working life are well known: We are the people taking up too much table space at cafes.
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.
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 must be extremely uncomfortable to live with a writer - all that preoccupation and brooding.
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?
