It’s a luxury being a writer because all you ever think about is life.
– Amy Tan
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- Reading’s not a luxury, art’s not a luxury. It’s about your soul, and it’s about yourself. And if reading is a luxury, being human is a luxury – Jeanette Winterson
- How can we read when people need our help? It’s a luxury. A stupid luxury. – Gary Shteyngart
- The best life you can have as you get into old age is good food, good teeth to eat it with, and few worries when you go to bed at night. – Amy Tan
- I had thus learned to push down my feelings, to force myself to not care, to do nothing and let things happen, come what may. – Amy Tan
- All objects exist in a moment of time. – Amy Tan
- When a husband stops paying attention to the garden, he’s thinking of pulling up roots. – Amy Tan
- When the anesthesia of love wears off,you suffer the pain of consequence. – Amy Tan
- I now lived in an invisible place made of my own dwindling breath, and because no one else could see it, they could not yank me out of it. – Amy Tan
- Only you pick that crab. Nobody else take it. I already know this. Everyone else want best quality. You thinking different. – Amy Tan
- Believe me, daughter, there is nothing worse than having your own family member out for revenge. – Amy Tan
- You can’t stay in the dark for too long. Something inside you starts to fade, and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light. – Amy Tan
- But you can’t stay in the dark for so long. Something inside of you starts to fade and you become like a starving person, crazy-hungry for light. – Amy Tan
- After all, Bao Bomu says, what is the past but what we choose to remember? – Amy Tan
- What is the past but what we choose to remember? – Amy Tan
- Our love would be solace, companionship, and the mending of wounds. – Amy Tan
- Fate is shaped half by expectation, half by inattention. – Amy Tan
- He simply translated what was in LuLing’s heart: her better intentions, her hopes. – Amy Tan
- I am a miserable cook but an extremely talented eater. – Amy Tan
- I am not a slow writer, I am not a fast writer . . . I am a half-fast writer. – Robert Lynn Asprin
- I was its skin, its movement, its shape, its god, its creator, its destroyer. And you thought Dexter was bad. The Bridgeman arrives soon. – Catherine Astolfo
- This mind is continuous and ever taxing, Sleep is an endeavoring luxury for the carnivorous mind – Gerald Mills
- Charlie had kissed a lot of guys. And Connor’s kiss had been the best ever. Ever, ever, ever. – Robin Bielman
- …If I ever got sloppy and maudlin, it would be for the streets of my childhood-”but no self- respecting writer should ever eulogize a slum… – John Geddes
- Amy! Sit correctly, you are wearing a dress…feet on the floor and your knees together girl…You are trying to catch a husband, not flies ! – Amy Mah
- A writer never takes a vacation. For a writer life consists of either writing or thinking about writing – Eugne Ionesco
- Don’t ask a writer what he’s working on. It’s like asking someone with cancer on the progress of his disease. – Amy Lowell
- the hardest thing in life is to accept the facts that are hard to accept and to accept the things you can’t accept. – yassi tan
- In today’s life, Luxury is Time and Space. – Harmon Okinyo
- The greatest luxury of life is peaceful breathing because it repairs the wounds of the cosmic soul. – Amit Ray
- It is a man’s duty to have books. A library is not a luxury, but one of the necessaries in life. – Henry Ward Beecher
- Luxury life is good if everyman living on earth can benefit from it! Otherwise, it is injustice! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- My personal philosophy is that you do art to experience emotion that you don’t have the luxury of experiencing in real life. – Kinan Azmeh
- A writer creates like the sculptor, with one exception: The writer must create his block of marble, before chiseling away the non-essentials. – Garry Fitchett
- We don’t know who was tricked by whom. Did the writer deceive the word, or did the word deceive the writer? – Dejan Stojanovic
- One would think a writer would be happy here — if a writer is every happy anywhere. – Raymond Chandler
- The worst thing for a writer is to know another writer, and worse than that, to know a number of other writers. Like flies on the same turd. – Charles Bukowski
- I’m a struggling writer, I’m struggling to convince people I’m a writer. – Tom Conrad
- Every writer or wanna-be writer has ideas for books. The problem isn’t finding an idea, it’s choosing one – Jo Linsdell
- Who knows why we do it? And when we’ve done it, nobody wants it. Still we keep doing it. That’s what makes a writer a writer. – Chloe Thurlow
- I could never stand to be a writer. Not a real writer. It’s entirely too awful, having thoughts that refuse to become sentences. – Caitln R Kiernan