The Writer's Life 
Subtitle: Intimate Thoughts on Work, Love, Inspiration, and Fame from the Diaries of the World's Great Writers
Edition: 1st ed edition
Publisher: Vintage
Published: October 28, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780679769576
Subjects: Quotations; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Life; Literary Criticism; Literature: Classics; Semiotics & Theory; Anthologies (multiple authors); Fiction / Anthologies (multiple authors); Diaries; Authors; Literary collections
Description: Ambition. Fame. Sex. Envy. Gossip. Money. Death. They're all here, in this book of quotations - many of them previously unpublished - from the diaries, journals, and notebooks of the world's greatest writers. Arranged chronologically, from the fervent declarations of youth to the serene reflections of old age, The Writer's Life spans twenty-three countries and four centuries to observe the entire spectrum of the human condition, with particular attention to the joys and agonies of literary endeavor.