1.   Ann Patchett admits that one of the reasons she became a writer was the cachet of the writing life.

2.   Back in the States, Atlas moved to Cambridge and went about the writing life.

3.   He basks in the anonymity of a writing life.

4.   Her writing life was hard for her parents to accept, she says, because they grew up with an extreme sense of insecurity in China.

5.   His early literary forays marked him as promising, and a lifelong friendship with Marcel Pagnol was further impulse for a writing life.

6.   In many ways, the hardhat stint made a good apprenticeship for the writing life.

7.   It is a different life than it once was, but it is still a writing life.

8.   Living in New York, pursuing my writing life, I had the world forever all before me.

9.   Looking for a new direction in her writing life, she decided to concentrate on short stories.

10.   Libby says he sometimes dreams of pursuing the writing life.