11.   Mundane tasks aside, MacNeil loves the writing life and advocates the reading life to people of all ages.

12.   Mitchard, who became a grandmother in April, took a few minutes recently to talk about family life and the writing life.

13.   Occasionally, he allowed a reporter into this inner sanctum and, grouchily, discussed his writing life and the controversies he got himself into because of his words.

14.   Shakespeare left behind thousands of the most memorable lines ever written, but not a single picture of himself from the most creative years of his remarkable writing life.

15.   She had gotten plenty of warnings about the impracticalities of the writing life.

16.   So she embarks on a quest to uncover the answer by piecing together narrative portraits of writing lives.

17.   Sparks came to the writing life through boredom, nursing a track injury the summer after his freshman year at Notre Dame.

18.   Still, I almost quit because I felt the writing life was not life, because I felt I was writing instead of living.

19.   The children plugged the conservative pundit for details of the writing life.

20.   The wholesale transformation of my writing life began, I suppose inevitably, with just a notion.