For most people, hearing voices is a bad sign. For a writer, the voices inside their head become the characters on their paper, which tell the story in their soul. Writers are a uniquely faithful breed, committed to the stories they need to tell, devoted to the words waiting to be put down on the page. It's not a profession one chooses. They are thrust into it, born with that purpose, that life's pursuit. They don't do the work; they become their work. A writer is a self-sacrificing being, as they are one of the few professions to give pieces of themselves away in their work. Here are 11 quotes that describe the life that a writer lives.