"The job of writers is to arrange their lives in a way that continues to keep them writing." Elizabeth Strout, as stated on Writers on Writing, KCRW
Wonderful Washington Post feature on the author of Olive Kitteridge, a novel-in-stories, which won the Pulitzer Prize (2009). If you aren't familiar with the work of Elizabeth Strout (read also the novels Amy & Isabel, Abide with Me), you're truly missing out.