All through my writing life, I've had this impulse to write autobiographical works. Votes: 4
Paul AusterNever believe that the fiction writing life makes sense.... It's insanity by definition. Votes: 4
Jo BeverleyComing up with ideas is the easiest thing on earth. Putting them down is the hardest. Votes: 4
Rod SerlingThere is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. Votes: 4
Ernest HemingwayWork controls my life, writing controls my life, performing controls my life. Votes: 2
Lemon AndersenEverything in my life affects my writing. There are no separate parts of my life. Votes: 2
Patricia Reilly GiffMy life is, in a sense, trash. My life is only that of which the residue is my writing. Votes: 2
John UpdikeYou're writing your life as you go - the question becomes, how do you want to write your life? Votes: 2
Hill HarperLet All Your Life's Experiences Lead To More Writing Encourage More Reading..! Votes: 0
Sujit LalwaniI love writing stories about regular people dealing with life's biggest questions. Votes: 0
Nick BlaemireThe process of writing, any form of creativity, is a power intensifying life. Votes: 0
Rita Mae BrownIf your way of life is writing, then everything that happens becomes a sentence. Votes: 0
Anne CarsonMy song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments. Votes: 0
Natalia KillsExercise the muscles that compassionately open the heart.In your writing and your life. Votes: 0
Dinty W. MooreIt's much harder when you're writing about your life, than when you're writing fiction. Votes: 0
Leigh NewmanWhat's the best thing you can do for your writing? Construct a boring life. Votes: 0
Dorothy AllisonSince the age of 11, I have loved writing poems and fragments from my life. Votes: 0
Niki de St. PhalleMy life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two. Votes: 0
Stephen FryAt least in my case, a very simple, regular, happy life makes for better writing. Votes: 0
Lauren GroffI have to start writing down things that happen, or I'll forget my life entirely. Votes: 0
Josh LiebYou can always boil down the life of a musician to touring, playing, and writing. Votes: 0
Tift MerrittLife is like a typographical error: we're constantly writing and rewriting things over each other. Votes: 0
Bret Easton EllisI began writing fiction when I started running out of material in my own life. Votes: 0
Jen LancasterMy life often feels like a whirling dervish of kids, writing, speaking, and pastoral ministry. Votes: 0
Kevin DeYoungYou are writing the story of your only life every single minute of every day. Votes: 0
Katherine CenterWriting, like any art, is a continuing process of discovering the infinite possibilities of Life. Votes: 0
Hubert Selby, Jr.The writing part of my life never changes, because that's just when the inspiration comes. Votes: 0
Randy OwenSince I quit banking, all my major life decisions, when they could, have revolved around writing. Votes: 0
Philipp MeyerThe trouble with writing fiction is that it has to make sense, whereas real life doesn't. Votes: 0
Iain BanksAlthough I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing. Votes: 0
Russell BanksTime, which is your enemy in almost everything in this life, is your friend in writing. Votes: 0
Tobias WolffI also believe that writing becomes worthwhile and vitalized only through a full and exciting life. Votes: 0
Esther ForbesLife is a book. Do you not realise we are writing the history of our time~? Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaI don't read blogs. I'm living the life they're writing about. So why read about it? Votes: 0
Nayvadius CashLife is a book. Do you not realise we are writing the history of our time? Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaLife is nearly over with me. I have taken no pains about my style of writing. Votes: 0
Charles DarwinWriting and directing your own film, for me, has been the best experience of my life. Votes: 0
Nicholas JareckiIt was as if I were writing letters to hold together the pieces of my crumbling life. Votes: 0
Haruki MurakamiThroughout my life I have taken detours in acting and writing, but art remains my abiding passion. Votes: 0
Gloria VanderbiltDon't worry about writing a book or getting famous or making money. Just lead an interesting life. Votes: 0
Michael MorpurgoEvery stage of life is a chapter of a book. You must begin writing your life book. Votes: 0
Lailah Gifty AkitaWhatever is going on in your life when you're writing has to somehow seep into your work. Votes: 0
Kate BushI never stopped writing about what was actually going on in my life. There's nothing to hide. Votes: 0
Lana Del ReyAfter three straight years of writing, though, I definitely needed a break to just go live my life. Votes: 0
Andy CohenI make writing as much a part of my life as I do eating or listening to music. Votes: 0
Maya AngelouI've had a very sheltered life. What can happen to you if you stay home writing all day? Votes: 0
R. L. StineIn writing fiction, I can be free. I can use my life. The raw material is my experiences. Votes: 0
Miriam ToewsWhen you ask, Did writing change my life? It totally changed my life. It gave me my life. Votes: 0
Judy BlumeWriting is a lonely way of life. You shut yourself up in your study and work and work. Votes: 0
Philip K. DickThe only end of writing is to enable readers better to enjoy life or better to endure it. Votes: 0
Samuel JohnsonI see no reason to spend your life writing poems unless your goal is to write great poems. Votes: 0
Donald HallLife is like writing with a pen. You can cross out your past but you can't erase it. Votes: 0
E. B. WhiteMy entire life has been centered around my writing, and by that I mean finding the time to write. Votes: 0
Jillian MedoffWhat you must accept is that your life is not going to be the same while you are writing. Votes: 0
Chinua AchebeWhen even your fans are writing to tell you to get a life, you know you need to listen. Votes: 0
Thom YorkeLet me say that I absolutely loved writing 'A Common Life,' because it was a book about love. Votes: 0
Jan KaronA creative writing class may be one of the last places you can go where your life still matters. Votes: 0
Richard HugoI am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and canât erase my mistakes. Votes: 0
Bill KaulitzI like writing because you can make things happen and turn out the way they never do in real life. Votes: 0
Rob ReinerLife - No, I've nothing to teach you about it for the moment. May be writing about it another week. Votes: 0
E. M. ForsterI could not spend the rest of my life sitting in Brazil writing down who called whom uncle and aunt. Votes: 0
Alan FurstArt is action. The way I live my life to its highest degree is by writing, the practice of art. Votes: 0
Ursula K. Le GuinI am writing more than I have ever done. My life has come back to me in the most extraordinary way. Votes: 0
Andrew MotionWriting a novel, I am making is an object that has a life and identity of its own, apart from me. Votes: 0
Jay NeugeborenMy writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people. Votes: 0
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